Linear phase-error correction for improved water and fat separation in dual-echo dixon techniques

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1250-1255

  Ma, Jingfei ^a   Slavens, Zachary ^b   Sun, Wei ^b   Bayram, Ersin ^b   Estowski, Lloyd ^b   Hwang, Ken Pin ^b   Akao, James ^b   Vu, Anthony T ^b  

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

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dixon water fat separation; Dual echo acquisition; Linear phase errors; Phase correction; Region growing

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; ERROR CORRECTION;

DEVELOPED REGIONS; DUAL-ECHO ACQUISITION; LINEAR COMPONENTS; LINEAR PHASE; PHASE CORRECTION ALGORITHM; PHASE CORRECTIONS; REGION GROWING; SYSTEM IMPERFECTIONS;

SEPARATION;

FAT; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ECHO DIXON TECHNIQUE; IMAGING; LINEAR PHASE ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROCESSING; RANDOM ERROR; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 55749102851     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21747     Document Type: Article

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