Recovery of signal loss due to an in-plane susceptibility gradient in the gradient echo EPI through acquisition of extended phase-encoding lines

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 777-783

  Jung, Kwan Jin ^a   Peng, Hua ^a   Zhao, Tiejun ^a   Avidan, Galia ^b   Behrmann, Marlene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Echo shift; EPI; Phase encoding; Susceptibility artifact; Susceptibility gradient

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77953810026     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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