Voxel spread function method for correction of magnetic field inhomogeneity effects in quantitative gradient-echo-based MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1283-1292

  Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a   Sukstanskii, Alexander L ^a   Luo, Jie ^a   Wang, Xiaoqi ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gradient echo; magnetic field inhomogeneities; magnetic susceptibility; MRI

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PHANTOMS; RATE CONSTANTS; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; GRADIENT ECHO; MACROSCOPIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITIES; QUANTITATIVE MRIS; TISSUE PROPERTIES; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION RATE;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

GRADIENT ECHO; MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITIES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MRI;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886802742     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24585     Document Type: Article

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