Investigation of motion artifacts associated with fat saturation technique in 3D flash imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4556-4562

  Shi, Kaining ^a,b   Zhou, Kun ^c   Niu, Xueming ^d   Luo, Bei ^d   Han, Hui ^e   Bao, Shanglian ^a   Ma, Jingfei ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd   (China)

^d Ministry of Education Beijing   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

fat saturation; FLASH; ghosting artifacts; simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LOW PASS FILTERS; PHANTOMS;

CLINICAL SCANNERS; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FAST LOW ANGLE SHOTS; FLASH; GHOSTING ARTIFACTS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; SIMULATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 79961073368     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3589139     Document Type: Article

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