Improved shim method based on the minimization of the maximum off-resonance frequency for balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1500-1506

  Lee, Jongho ^a,b,d   Lustig, Michael ^b   Kim, Dong Hyun ^c   Pauly, John M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^d Building 10 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Least squares; Min max; Minimax; Shim; Shimming; SSFP

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SHIMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LEAST SQUARE; MIN-MAX; MINIMAX; SHIMMING; SSFP;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD SHIMMING; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME;

EID: 67049134872     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21800     Document Type: Article

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