Rapid gradient-echo imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1300-1313

  Hargreaves, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

balanced SSFP; gradient echo; spoiling; steady state

Indexed keywords

BOLD SIGNAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84869462402     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23742     Document Type: Review

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