Reduction of B1 sensitivity in selective single-slab 3D turbo spin echo imaging with very long echo trains

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1060-1066

  Park, Jaeseok ^a,d   Mugler III, John P ^b   Hughes, Timothy ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adiabatic excitation; B1 sensitivity; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Spin echo; Three dimensional; Variable flip angle

Indexed keywords

SPIN POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ADIABATIC EXCITATION; ADIABATIC HALF-PASSAGE PULSE; B1 SENSITIVITY; FLIP ANGLE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SPIN ECHO; TURBO SPIN-ECHO IMAGING; UNIFORM EXCITATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY MRI; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 70349611298     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22070     Document Type: Article

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