Ultra-fast steady state free precession and its application to in vivo 1H morphological and functional lung imaging at 1.5 tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 657-663

  Bieri, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

imaging; lung; SSFP; steady state; ultra fast

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; LUNG; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SSFP; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; ULTRA-FAST;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ONLINE MONITORING; PHANTOM; SAFETY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84883229895     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24858     Document Type: Article

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