Synthesis methods of multiple phase-cycled SSFP images to reduce the band artifact and noise more reliably

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-118

  Jung, Kwan Jin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Band artifact; Complex summation; Fourier analysis; Phase cycling; Signal to noise ratio; SSFP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71049155820     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.045     Document Type: Article

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