Reducing distortions in diffusion-weighted echo planar imaging with a dual-echo blip-reversed sequence

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 382-390

  Gallichan, Daniel ^a   Andersson, Jesper L R ^a   Jenkinson, Mark ^a   Robson, Matthew D ^a   Miller, Karla L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distortion correction; DTI; EPI; MRI; Parallel imaging

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE CODING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; DISTORTION CORRECTION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; INHOMOGENEITIES; PARALLEL IMAGING; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLIP REVERSED ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 77955104403     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22318     Document Type: Article

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