Optimizing signal-to-noise ratio of high-resolution parallel single-shot diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging at ultrahigh field strengths

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 679-690

  Reischauer, Carolin ^a   Vorburger, Robert S ^a   Wilm, Bertram J ^a   Jaermann, Thomas ^a,b   Boesiger, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

echo planar imaging; high resolution diffusion weighted imaging; parallel imaging; signal to noise ratio; ultrahigh field strengths

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; PARALLEL IMAGING; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 84857372422     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23057     Document Type: Article

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