Increasing efficiency of parallel imaging for 2D multislice acquisitions

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1459-1470

  Honal, Matthias ^a,b   Bauer, Simon ^a   Ludwig, Ute ^a   Leupold, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; GRAPPA; Multislice acquisitions; Parallel imaging

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EFFICIENCY;

ADDITIONAL DATUM; CALIBRATION LINES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; COIL SENSITIVITY; GRAPPA; MULTI SLICES; PARALLEL IMAGING; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GENERALIZED AUTOCALIBRATING PARTIALLY PARALLEL ACQUISITION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY; MULTISLICE ACQUISITION; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL IMAGING ALGORITHM; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TWO DIMENSIONAL MULTISLICE ACQUISITION;

EID: 67049114259     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21818     Document Type: Article

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