Comparison of optimized soft-tissue suppression schemes for ultrashort echo time MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 680-689

  Li, Cheng ^a   Magland, Jeremy F ^a   Rad, Hamidreza Saligheh ^a   Song, Hee Kwon ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

imaging parameter optimization; ultrashort echo time imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COLLAGEN; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TISSUE;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGING PARAMETERS; LOWER EXTREMITY; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FAT; PROTON; WATER;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE; TIBIA; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME IMAGING;

EID: 84865526371     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23267     Document Type: Article

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