Measuring signal-to-noise ratio in partially parallel imaging MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5049-5057

  Goerner, Frank L ^a   Clarke, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

GRAPPA; MRI; mSENSE; partially parallel imaging; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ACCELERATION FACTORS; GENERALIZED AUTO-CALIBRATING PARTIALLY PARALLEL ACQUISITIONS; GRAPPA; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MSENSE; PARALLEL IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80052421229     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3618730     Document Type: Article

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