Improved elimination of phase effects from background field inhomogeneities for susceptibility weighted imaging at high magnetic field strengths

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1145-1151

  Rauscher, Alexander ^a,b   Barth, Markus ^c,d   Herrmann, Karl Heinz ^a   Witoszynskyj, Stephan ^a   Deistung, Andreas ^a   Reichenbach, Jüergen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 T; Field inhomogeneities; MRI; Phase; SWI; Unwrapping

Indexed keywords

AIR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FILTRATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARENCHYMA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRENGTH; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 51649085754     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.01.029     Document Type: Article

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