RAPID: A routine assurance pipeline for imaging of diffusion

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 490-496

  De Santis, S ^a,b   Evans, C J ^a,b   Jones, D K ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross terms; diffusion; gradient calibration; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIPELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPREHENSIVE QUALITIES; CROSS-TERMS; DIFFUSION MRIS; FIELD OF VIEWS; GRADIENT CALIBRATION; GRADIENT ORIENTATIONS; TEMPORAL STABILITY; WEIGHTED ACQUISITIONS;

DIFFUSION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PHANTOM; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84881155270     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24465     Document Type: Article

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