Phase and its Relationship to Imaging Parameters and Susceptibility

Susceptibility Weighted Imaging in MRI: Basic Concepts and Clinical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-71

  Rauscher, Alexander ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^b,d,e,f,g   Neelavalli, Jaladhar ^b,c,d   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^h  

^a Research Centre   (Canada)

^b MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phase and imaging parameter and susceptibility permeating concept in physics, signal theory and linear system theory; Phase mask and voxel aspect ratio phase mask application, and SWI; Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) and phase function of field strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864132420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470905203.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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