Rapid acquisition of multifrequency, multislice and multidirectional MR elastography data with a fractionally encoded gradient echo sequence

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1326-1335

  Garteiser, Philippe ^a   Sahebjavaher, Ramin S ^b   Ter Beek, Leon C ^c   Salcudean, Septimiu ^b   Vilgrain, Valérie ^a,d   Van Beers, Bernard E ^a,d   Sinkus, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Fractional encoding; Gradient echo; MR elastography

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; GRADIENT ECHO; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; MECHANICAL EXCITATIONS; MR ELASTOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION;

EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAFFINS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRAIN; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MOTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

FRACTIONAL ENCODING; GRADIENT ECHO; MR ELASTOGRAPHY;

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883795443     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2958     Document Type: Article

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