Incidental magnetization transfer contrast by fat saturation preparation pulses in multislice look-locker echo planar imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 520-526

  Shin, Wanyong ^a   Gu, Hong ^a   Yang, Yihong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fat saturation pulse; Look locker EPI; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetization transfer contrast

Indexed keywords

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; INVERSION RECOVERY; LOOK-LOCKER; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER CONTRASTS; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MULTI SLICES; SIGNAL ATTENUATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STEADY STATE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 67749131038     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22034     Document Type: Article

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