Fundamentals of balanced steady state free precession MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-11

  Bieri, Oliver ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

contrast; preparation; steady state; transient phase

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE; EXCITATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE;

CONTRAST; PREPARATION; STEADY STATE; TRANSIENT PHASE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84880131413     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24163     Document Type: Review

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