Subject-specific water-selective imaging using parallel transmission

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 988-997

  Malik, Shaihan J ^a   Larkman, David J ^a   O'regan, Declan P ^a   Hajnal, Joseph V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binomial pulse; Fat suppression; Parallel transmission; Spectral spatial pulse; Water selection

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BINOMIAL PULSE; FAT SUPPRESSION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MULTI-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; SPECTRAL SPATIAL PULSE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

TRANSMISSIONS;

FAT; WATER;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 77950609787     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22260     Document Type: Article

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