Modified PROPELLER approach for T2-mapping of the abdomen

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1269-1278

  Deng, Jie ^a,b   Larson, Andrew C ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; PROPELLER; T2 relaxometry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAPPING; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; FUNCTIONAL TISSUE; MOTION ARTIFACT; PHYSIOLOGIC MOTION; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; RELAXOMETRY; STIMULATED ECHOS; TURBO SPIN ECHOS;

PROPELLERS;

AGAR; FAT; LIPID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY; LEG MUSCLE; LIVER; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODICALLY ROTATED OVERLAPPING PARALLEL LINES WITH ENHANCED RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN;

EID: 67049160854     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21989     Document Type: Article

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