Three-dimensional ultrashort echo time imaging of solid polymers on a 3-tesla whole-body MRI scanner

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 802-808

  Springer, Fabian ^a,c   Martirosian, Petros ^a   Schwenzer, Nina F ^a   Szimtenings, Michael ^b   Kreisler, Peter ^b   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c Section on Experimental Radiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

MR guided interventions; Polymers; Relaxometry; Ultrashort echo time sequences

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYAMIDE; POLYCARBONATE; POLYETHERETHERKETONE; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYURETHAN; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY MRI; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYMERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 58149288349     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318188601f     Document Type: Article

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