Improved signal spoiling in fast radial gradient-echo imaging: Applied to accurate t1 mapping and flip angle correction

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1185-1194

  Wei, Lin ^a   Hee, Kwon Song ^b  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

B1 mapping; Radial imaging; Random spoiling; RF spoiling; T1 mapping

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION;

B1 MAPPING; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; NON-STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RANDOM SPOILING; RF SPOILING; SIGNAL INTENSITIES;

MAPPING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 70449411160     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22089     Document Type: Article

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