Improved SNR in phase contrast velocimetry with five-point balanced flow encoding

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 349-355

  Johnson, Kevin M ^a   Markl, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow quantification; Phase contrast; Signal to noise; Vascular hemodynamics; Velocity mapping

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE CODING; SIGNAL ENCODING; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ENCODING SCHEMES; FLOW QUANTIFICATION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; PHASE CONTRASTS; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; VELOCITY MAPPING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AORTA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PHASE CONTRAST VELOCIMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 75749111626     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22202     Document Type: Article

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