Accelerated human cardiac diffusion tensor imaging using simultaneous multislice imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 995-1004

  Lau, Angus Z ^a   Tunnicliffe, Elizabeth M ^a   Frost, Robert ^b   Koopmans, Peter J ^b   Tyler, Damian J ^a   Robson, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blipped CAIPI; Cardiac; Diffusion; Multiband; Parallel imaging; Simultaneous multislice

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HEART; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TENSORS;

BLIPPED CAIPI; CARDIAC; MULTI SLICES; MULTIBAND; PARALLEL IMAGING;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENTROPY; EXCITATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULTANEOUS MULTISLICE IMAGING; TIME; WAVEFORM; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923126507     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25200     Document Type: Article

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