Prospective and retrospective high order eddy current mitigation for diffusion weighted echo planar imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1293-1305

  Xu, Dan ^a   Maier, Joseph K ^a   King, Kevin F ^a   Collick, Bruce D ^a   Wu, Gaohong ^a   Peters, Robert D ^a   Hinks, R Scott ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

artifacts; diffusion MRI; distortion; eddy currents; EPI

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; DISTORTION (WAVES); EDDY CURRENTS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION MRIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE CO-REGISTRATION; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; IMAGING PROTOCOL; THEORY AND METHODS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION MRI; DISTORTION; EDDY CURRENTS; EPI;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84886798627     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24589     Document Type: Article

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