Balanced multipoint Displacement encoding for DENSE MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 981-988

  Zhong, Xiaodong ^a   Helm, Patrick A ^b   Epstein, Frederick H ^a,b,c  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

DENSE; Displacement encoding; MRI; Tagging; Velocity encoding

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE NOISE;

DENSE; DISPLACEMENT ENCODING WITH STIMULATED ECHOES; MULTI-POINT DISPLACEMENTS; MULTI-POINT METHODS; PHASE CONTRASTS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; TAGGING; TISSUE DISPLACEMENT;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISPLACEMENT ENCODING WITH STIMULATED ECHO IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; PHASE CONTRAST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 66249094871     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21851     Document Type: Article

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