Generalized MAGSTE with bipolar diffusion-weighting gradient pulses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 214-224

  Finsterbusch, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background gradients; Bipolar gradients; Cross term compensation; Diffusion; Generalized MAGSTE; MRI

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND GRADIENTS; BIPOLAR GRADIENTS; CROSS-TERM COMPENSATION; GENERALIZED MAGSTE; MRI;

DIFFUSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 67649427842     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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