A single-scan T2* mapping method based on two gradient-echo images with compensation for macroscopic field inhomogeneity

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1388-1395

  Meng, Yuguang ^a,b   Lei, Hao ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Gradient echo; Magnetic resonance imaging; Susceptibility artifact; T 2*; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAPPING;

ACQUISITION TIME; GRADIENT ECHO; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING SEQUENCES; MACROSCOPIC FIELDS; MAPPING METHOD; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

PROTON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 57149090288     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21731     Document Type: Article

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