Ultrashort TE imaging with off-resonance saturation contrast (UTE-OSC)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 527-531

  Du, Jiang ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi M ^b   Bydder, Mark ^a   Chung, Christine B ^a   Bydder, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetization transfer; Off resonance saturation; Projection reconstruction; Ultrashort TE

Indexed keywords

BONE; RESONANCE; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

ABSORPTION LINESHAPE; ACHILLES TENDONS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGES; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; OFF-RESONANCE; OFF-RESONANCE IRRADIATION; PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION;

TENDONS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORTICAL BONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFF RESONANCE SATURATION CONTRAST; PHANTOM; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME IMAGING;

ACHILLES TENDON; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIBIA;

EID: 67749116329     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22007     Document Type: Article

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