T1-weighted brain imaging with a 32-channel coil at 3T using TurboFLASH BLADE compared with standard cartesian k-space sampling

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-183

  Attenberger, Ulrike I ^a,b   Runge, Val M ^a   Williams, Kenneth D ^a   Stemmer, Alto ^c   Michaely, Henrik J ^d   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^d   Reiser, Maximilian F ^b   Wintersperger, Bernd J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

32 channel coil; 3T; BLADE; Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; PROPELLER; T1 weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARTESIAN K SPACE SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST; TURBOFLASH BLADE;

EID: 67651009463     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318198a1fd     Document Type: Article

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