Multishot PROPELLER for high-field preclinical MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-53

  Pandit, Prachi ^a,b   Qi, Yi ^a   Story, Jennifer ^c   King, Kevin F ^d   Johnson, G Allan ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c Piedmont Research Center   (United States)

^d GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal; High field; Preclinical; PROPELLER; T2; Ungated

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ABDOMINAL; HIGH FIELD; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-CONTRAST RESOLUTION; HIGH-FREQUENCY INFORMATIONS; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING; PRECLINICAL; UNGATED;

PROPELLERS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODICALLY ROTATED OVERLAPPING PARALLEL LINES WITH ENHANCED RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 77953952860     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22376     Document Type: Article

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