Distortion correction in EPI at ultra-high-field MRI using PSF mapping with optimal combination of shift detection dimension

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1239-1246

  Oh, Se Hong ^a,b   Chung, Jun Young ^a   In, Myung Ho ^c   Zaitsev, Maxim ^d   Kim, Young Bo ^a   Speck, Oliver ^c   Cho, Zang Hee ^a  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

combined PSF mapping; distortion correction; echo planar imaging; EPI; geometric distortion; point spread function; PSF ghost artifact

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAPPING;

DISTORTION CORRECTION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD; PSF-GHOST ARTIFACT; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS; ULTRA-HIGH FIELD MRIS;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISTORTION CORRECTION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION MAPPING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 84866740031     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23317     Document Type: Article

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