T1 corrected B1 mapping using multi-TR gradient echo sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 725-733

  Voigt, Tobias ^a   Nehrke, Kay ^b   Doessel, Olaf ^a   Katscher, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actual flip angle imaging; B1 mapping; Quantitative mri; RF field mapping; T1 mapping

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

B1 MAPPING; FLIP ANGLE; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE MRIS; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS; REFERENCE MEASUREMENTS; RF FIELDS;

MAPPING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 77956379315     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22333     Document Type: Article

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