Improved formulas for the two optimum VFA flip-angles

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-3

  Wood, Tobias Charles ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIP ANGLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; GOLD STANDARD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VARIABLE FLIP ANGLE;

EID: 84932195825     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25592     Document Type: Letter

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