Elimination of motion and pulsation artifacts using BLADE sequences in knee MR imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1099-1110

  Lavdas, Eleftherios ^a   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^b   Hatzigeorgiou, Vasiliki ^c   Roka, Violeta ^d   Arikidis, Nikos ^e   Oikonomou, Georgia ^a   Andrianopoulos, Konstantinos ^c   Notaras, Ioannis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c IASO   (Greece)

^d Health Center of Farkadona   (Greece)

^e SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

1.5 T MRI; BLADE sequences; Knee examination; Motion artifacts; Pulsation artifacts

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION ARTIFACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON DENSITY BLADE SEQUENCE; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSATION ARTIFACT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RELATIVE CONTRAST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866171575     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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