Evaluation of a modified stejskal-tanner diffusion encoding scheme, permitting a marked reduction in TE, in diffusion-weighted imaging of stroke patients at 3 T

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-35

  Morelli, John N ^a   Runge, Val M ^a   Feiweier, Thorsten ^b   Kirsch, John E ^b   Williams, Kenneth W ^a   Attenberger, Ulrike I ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain infarction; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic susceptibility; MRI; Spatial distortion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STROKE PATIENT;

EID: 74049112967     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181c65c11     Document Type: Article

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