Fourier decomposition pulmonary MRI using a variable flip angle balanced steady-state free precession technique

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1999-2004

  Corteville, D M R ^a   Kjorstad A ^a   Henzler, T ^a   Zollner F G ^a   Schad, L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP); Fourier decomposition; non contrast enhanced lung MRI; SNR optimization; variable flip angles

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

FLIP ANGLE; FOURIER DECOMPOSITION; LUNG MRIS; SNR OPTIMIZATION; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VARIABLE FLIP ANGLE BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION TECHNIQUE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84928077828     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25293     Document Type: Article

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