Free-breathing inner-volume black-blood imaging of the human heart using two-dimensionally selective local excitation at 3 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 822-829

  Abd Elmoniem, Khaled Z ^a   Barmet, Christoph ^b   Stuber, Matthias ^c,d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^e University of Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

2D selective RF pulses; black blood; local excitation

Indexed keywords

HEART; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITIES; CARDIAC ANATOMY; EXCITATION TECHNIQUE; FAST SPIN ECHOS; IMAGING PARAMETERS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RF PULSE;

BLOOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLACK BLOOD FAST SPIN ECHO IMAGING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX;

EID: 84863572815     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23305     Document Type: Article

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