Cardiac phase-specific shimming (CPSS) for SSFP MR cine imaging at 3 T

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Kubach, Miriam R ^a,b   Bornstedt, Axel ^a   Hombach, Vinzenz ^a   Merkle, Nico ^a   Schär, Michael ^d   Spiess, Jochen ^a   Nienhaus, Gerd U ^b,c   Rasche, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC CYCLES; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FIELD HOMOGENEITY; HIGHER ORDER; IN-FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD DISTORTION; MAGNETIC FIELD HOMOGENEITY; MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITIES; PHASE DEPENDENCE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; T-SYSTEMS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PHASE SPECIFIC SHIMMING; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 71049188146     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/20/N01     Document Type: Article

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