Robust 2D phase correction for echo planar imaging under a tight field-of-view

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1800-1813

  Xu, Dan ^a   King, Kevin F ^a   Zur, Yuval ^b   Hinks, R Scott ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (Israel)

Author keywords

EPI; ghost reduction; parallel imaging; partial Fourier imaging; phase correction

Indexed keywords

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PARTIAL-FOURIER; PHASE CORRECTIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; POLYNOMIAL FITTINGS; RINGING ARTIFACTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GHOST REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 78649601359     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22577     Document Type: Article

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