Rapid assessment of longitudinal relaxation time in materials and tissues with extremely fast signal decay using UTE sequences and the variable flip angle method

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 610-617

  Springer, Fabian ^a   Steidle, Günter ^a   Martirosian, Petros ^a   Syha, Roland ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Longitudinal relaxation time; Optimal flip angles; Quantification; UTE sequence; Variable flip angle method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPETITION TIME; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

EID: 80052426374     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31821c44cd     Document Type: Article

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