Dual inversion recovery, ultrashort echo time (DIR UTE) imaging: Creating high contrast for short-T2 species

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-455

  Du, Jiang ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi M ^b   Bae, Won C ^a   Chung, Christine B ^a   Bydder, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic inversion pulses; Musculoskeletal imaging; Ultrashort TE

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARTILAGE; DATA ACQUISITION; TENDONS; TIME DELAY;

ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; ADIABATIC INVERSIONS; ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INVERSION RECOVERY; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

MAGNETIZATION;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CADAVER; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL INVERSION RECOVERY ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 75749154996     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22257     Document Type: Article

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