Implementation and assessment of diffusion-weighted partial Fourier readout-segmented echo-planar imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 441-451

  Frost, Robert ^a   Porter, David A ^b   Miller, Karla L ^a   Jezzard, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffusion MR; diffusion tensor imaging; readout segmented EPI

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SET THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION MR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SETS; PROJECTIONS ONTO CONVEX SETS; READOUT-SEGMENTED EPI; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84863857149     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23242     Document Type: Article

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