Chemical shift encoding-based water-fat separation methods

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 251-268

  Eggers, Holger ^a   Börnert, Peter ^a,b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chemical shift encoding; Dixon methods; fat suppression; water fat separation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FAT; HYDROGEN; WATER;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; WATER;

EID: 84904581932     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24568     Document Type: Article

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