Short T2 contrast with three-dimensional ultrashort echo time imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 470-482

  Du, Jiang ^a   Bydder, Mark ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi M ^b   Carl, Michael ^b   Chung, Christine B ^a   Bydder, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Musculoskeletal imaging; Projection reconstruction; Short T2 contrast; Ultrashort TE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE MENISCUS; LIGAMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; TENDON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; PATELLA; SWINE; TENDONS; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79954582760     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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