Steady-state MRI: Methods for neuroimaging

Imaging in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-105

  Miller, Karla L ^a   Tijssen, Rob H N ^a   Stikov, Nikola ^b   Okell, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

angiography; brain; diffusion; flow; fMRI; MRI; neuroimaging; SSFP; steady state; susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; RHEOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 79952169316     PISSN: 17555191     EISSN: 17555205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/iim.10.66     Document Type: Review

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