Comparison of SPACE and 3D TSE MRCP at 1.5T focusing on difference in echo spacing

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 101-105

  Morita, Satoru ^a   Ueno, Eiko ^a   Masukawa, Ai ^a   Suzuki, Kazufumi ^a   Machida, Haruhiko ^a   Fujimura, Mikihiko ^a   Kojima, Shinya ^a   Hirata, Masami ^a   Ohnishi, Takahiro ^b   Kitajima, Kazuhiro ^c   Kaji, Yasushi ^c  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echo space; MRCP; MRI; SPACE; Variable flip angle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS DUCT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DUCTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949086062     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.8.101     Document Type: Article

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