Fast high resolution whole brain T2* weighted imaging using echo planar imaging at 7T

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1902-1907

  Zwanenburg, Jaco J M ^a,b   Versluis, Maarten J ^d   Luijten, Peter R ^a   Petridou, Natalia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echo planar imaging; Fast imaging; High field MRI; High resolution structural imaging; Susceptibility weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; CAPSULA INTERNA; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RED NUCLEUS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; T2 WEIGHTED IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE;

EID: 79957518763     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.046     Document Type: Article

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