Use of simulated annealing for the design of multiple repetition time balanced steady-state free precession imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 220-226

  Lee, Kuan J ^a   Lee, Hsu Lei ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Leupold, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balanced steady state free precession; Fat suppression; Frequency response function; Positive contrast; Spectral profile

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FAT SUPPRESSION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; POSITIVE CONTRAST; SPECTRAL PROFILE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ARTICLE; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; FAT SUPPRESSION IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SIMULATION;

EID: 84862256154     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23221     Document Type: Article

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