Fast three-dimensional 1H MR spectroscopic imaging at 7 Tesla using "spectroscopic Missing Pulse - SSFP"

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1243-1249

  Schuster, Christian ^a,b,e   Dreher, Wolfgang ^a,b   Stadler, Jörg ^c   Bernarding, Johannes ^d   Leibfritz, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Center for Advanced Imaging   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human brain; Missing pulse; Spectroscopic imaging; Steady state

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS;

HUMAN BRAIN; MISSING PULSE; MR SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SEQUENCE MODIFICATION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; STEADY STATE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

CHEMICAL SHIFT;

CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; LIPID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PROTON; WATER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST THREE DIMENSIONAL H 1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPECTROSCOPIC MISSING PULSE STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION SEQUENCE; VOLUNTEER; ALGORITHM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 55749099297     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21787     Document Type: Article

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