Triple echo steady-state (TESS) relaxometry

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 230-237

  Heule, Rahel ^a   Ganter, Carl ^b   Bieri, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

fast imaging; quantification; relaxometry; triple echo steady state

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

FAST IMAGING; GOLDEN SECTION SEARCH; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; QUANTIFICATION; RELAXOMETRY; STEADY STATE; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; IMAGING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUSCLE; RELAXATION TIME; SIMULATION; TRIPLE ECHO STEADY STATE RELAXOMETRY;

FAST IMAGING; QUANTIFICATION; RELAXOMETRY; T1; T2; TRIPLE ECHO STEADY-STATE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84890806601     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24659     Document Type: Article

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