Banding artifact removal for bSSFP imaging with an elliptical signal model

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 927-933

  Xiang, Qing San ^a   Hoff, Michael N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

analytical geometric solution; banding artifact; bSSFP imaging; elliptical signal model; phase cycling

Indexed keywords

BANDING ARTIFACT; CLINICAL APPLICATION; HIGH TIME EFFICIENCY; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; PHASE CYCLING; SIGNAL MODELING; SIGNAL MODULATIONS; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

PHANTOMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; STEADY STATE; VOLUNTEER; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84894418885     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25098     Document Type: Article

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