Short-echo-time magnetic resonance spectroscopy of single voxel with arbitrary shape in the living human brain using segmented two-dimensional selective radiofrequency excitations based on a blipped-planar trajectory

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 664-671

  Weber Fahr, Wolfgang ^a,b   Busch, Martin G ^a,b   Finsterbusch, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily shaped voxel; Chemical shift displacement; Partial volume effects; Single voxel MRS; Two dimensional selective RF excitations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EXCITATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67349264885     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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