Performance of single spin-echo and doubly refocused diffusion-weighted sequences in the presence of eddy current fields with multiple components

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 659-667

  Nunes, Rita G ^a,b   Drobnjak, Ivana ^c   Clare, Stuart ^d   Jezzard, Peter ^d   Jenkinson, Mark ^d  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EDDY CURRENT FIELD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79956067275     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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