Improving the performance of diffusion-weighted inner field-of-view echo-planar imaging based on 2D-Selective radiofrequency excitations by tilting the excitation plane

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 984-992

  Finsterbusch, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D selective RF excitation; diffusion tensor; EPI; high resolution; inner field of view; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPINAL CORD; TILTING; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84858722466     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23522     Document Type: Article

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