Distortion-free magnetic resonance imaging in the zero-field limit

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-290

  Kelso, Nathan ^a,b   Lee, Seung Kyun ^a,b   Bouchard, Louis S ^a,b   Demas, Vasiliki ^a,b   Mück, Michael ^c   Pines, Alexander ^a,b   Clarke, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent averaging; Concomitant gradients; Image distortion; Low field MRI; Mobile NMR; SQUID detected NMR

Indexed keywords

COHERENT AVERAGING; CONCOMITANT GRADIENTS; IMAGE DISTORTION; LOW-FIELD MRI; MOBILE NMR;

DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN POLARIZATION; SQUIDS;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; 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: 69949183989     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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