Flow-induced disturbances In balanced steady-state free precession images: Means to reduce or exploit them

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 893-898

  Lagerstrand, K M ^a,c   Plewes, D B ^b   Vikhoff Baaz, B ^a,c   Forssell Aronsson, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

B SSFP; Inflow; Velocity quantification

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; VELOCITY;

EXCITATION REGION; FLOW INDUCED; INFLOW; OFF-RESONANCE; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; RF PULSE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; RADIOFREQUENCY; REFERENCE VALUE; STEADY STATE;

EID: 66249124237     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21656     Document Type: Article

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