Double-spin-echo diffusion weighting with a modified eddy current adjustment

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 434-440

  Finsterbusch, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighting; Eddy currents; Eddy current compensation; EPI; Geometric distortions

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDDY COVARIANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649341137     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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