Spoiled FLASH MRI with slice selective excitation: Signal equation with a correction term

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 89-100

  Gras, Vincent ^a   Abbas, Zaheer ^a   Shah, Nadim J ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Proton density; Quantitative imaging; Slice profile correction; T1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878422412     PISSN: 15466086     EISSN: 15525023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.a.21264     Document Type: Article

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