Fat-water selective excitation in balanced steady-state free precession using short spatial-spectral RF pulses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-224

  Yuan, Jing ^a   Madore, Bruno ^b   Panych, Lawrence P ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced steady state free precession; Dixon method; Fat water suppression; Spatial spectral pulse

Indexed keywords

BANDING ARTIFACT; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; DIXON METHOD; FAT SUPPRESSION; FAT-WATER SUPPRESSION; PULSE DESIGN; RF PULSE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SPATIAL-SPECTRAL PULSE; STEADY-STATE FREE PRECESSION; TWO-POINT;

EXCITED STATES;

FAT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FATS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; WATER;

EID: 79151469578     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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