Repetition time and flip angle variation in SPRITE imaging for acquisition time and SAR reduction

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-145

  Jon Shah, N ^a,b   Kaffanke, Joachim B ^a   Romanzetti, Sandro ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition time reduction; SAR reduction; Sequence design; Single point imaging; SPRITE

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME REDUCTION; SAR REDUCTION; SEQUENCE DESIGN; SINGLE POINT IMAGING; SPRITE;

IMAGE QUALITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

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

EID: 67649450483     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.01.036     Document Type: Article

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