Quick water-selective excitation of fast relaxing tissues with 3D UTE sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 534-543

  Springer, Fabian ^a,b   Steidle, Günter ^a   Martirosian, Petros ^a,b   Grosse, Ulrich ^a,b   Syha, Roland ^a,b   Schabel, Christoph ^a,b   Claussen, Claus D ^b   Schick, Fritz ^a  

^a Section on Experimental Radiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

tendon; ultrashort echo time imaging; water selective excitation

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; TENDONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; DOUBLE PULSE; MAGNETIZATION COMPONENTS; OFF-RESONANCE; RELAXATION PROPERTY; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SIGNAL YIELDS; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CHLOROPHACINONE; FAT; PROTON; WATER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PULSE WAVE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEADY STATE; TENDON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME IMAGING; WATER SELECTIVE EXCITATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENDONS;

EID: 84892434087     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24684     Document Type: Article

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