Fast radio-frequency enforced steady state (FRESS) spin echo MRI for quantitative T 2 mapping: Minimizing the apparent repetition time (TR) dependence for fast T 2 measurement

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-194

  Cheung, Jerry S ^a   Wang, Enfeng ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaoan ^b   Mandeville, Emiri ^a   Lo, Eng H ^a   Sorensen, A Gregory ^a   Sun, Phillip Zhe ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MRI; Spin echo; Stroke; T 2

Indexed keywords

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; INDUCED SIGNAL; MRI SEQUENCES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REPETITION TIME; SPIN ECHO; STEADY STATE; STROKE; T 2; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION TIME;

MAGNETIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIN POLARIZATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; RELAXATION TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; MALE; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPIN LABELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856003092     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1729     Document Type: Article

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