Efficient fat suppression by slice-selection gradient reversal in twice-refocused diffusion encoding

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1256-1260

  Nagy, Zoltan ^a   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical shift artifact; Diffusion imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fat suppression; Slice selection gradient

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; DIFFUSION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING; TENSORS;

ACQUISITION TIME; DIFFUSION IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FAT SUPPRESSION; PHASE ENCODING; PULSE SEQUENCE; SPATIAL ENCODING; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

FAT; WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SLICE SELECTION GRADIENT REVERSAL;

EID: 55749091266     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21746     Document Type: Article

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