Temporal SNR characteristics in segmented 3D-EPI at 7T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 344-352

  Van Der Zwaag, W ^a,b   Marques, J P ^a,b   Kober, T ^a   Glover, G ^c   Gruetter, R ^a,b,d   Krueger, G ^e  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e Siemens Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D EPI; EVI; SNR; tSNR

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

3D-EPI; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TSNR;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL SEGMENTED ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84856209913     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23007     Document Type: Article

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