Design and use of tailored hard-pulse trains for uniformed saturation of myocardium at 3 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 997-1002

  Sung, Kyunghyun ^a,b   Nayak, Krishna S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

B1 inhomogeneity; Cardiac MRI; Myocardial perfusion imaging; RF saturation pulses

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CARDIAC MRI; CONTRAST AGENT; INHOMOGENEITIES; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIZATION; LOWER AVERAGE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF SATURATION PULSES;

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 53549088080     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21765     Document Type: Article

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