Solving the problem of concomitant gradients in ultra-low-field MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-219

  Nieminen, Jaakko O ^a   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Concomitant gradients; Image reconstruction; Ultra low field MRI

Indexed keywords

CONCOMITANT GRADIENTS; FIELD GRADIENT; FOURIER RECONSTRUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; GRADIENT FIELDS; HIGH FIELD MRI; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; LINEAR INVERSION; LOW FIELD MRI; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPIN PRECESSION;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RESONANCE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; WATER;

EID: 78649397548     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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