Three-dimensional fast spoiled gradient-echo dual echo (3D-FSPGR-DE) with water reconstruction: Preliminary experience with a novel pulse sequence for gadolinium-enhanced abdominal MR imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 946-956

  Low, Russell N ^a   Panchal, Neeraj ^a   Vu, Anthony T ^b   Knowles, Adrian ^b   Estkowski, Lloyd ^b   Slavens, Zachary ^b   Ma, Jingfei ^c  

^a SHARP HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual echo; Fat suppression; MR imaging; T1 weighted contrast agent enhancement; Three dimensional Dixon imaging; Three dimensional gradient echo; Two point Dixon

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL FAST SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO DUAL ECHO IMAGING;

ABDOMEN; ARTIFACTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; ROC CURVE; WATER;

EID: 53549084058     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21545     Document Type: Article

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