Optimized 3D ultrashort echo time pulmonary MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1241-1250

  Johnson, Kevin M ^a   Fain, Sean B ^a,b,c   Schiebler, Mark L ^a   Nagle, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

lung; MRI; radial imaging; ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

CLINICAL FEASIBILITY; LUNG; NOISE PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STUDENT'S T TESTS; TECHNICAL QUALITY; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FRIEDMAN TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

LUNG; MRI; RADIAL IMAGING; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886795234     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24570     Document Type: Article

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