Structural imaging of the cervical spinal cord with suppressed CSF signal using DANTE pulse trains

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 971-977

  Li, Linqing ^a   Kong, Yazhuo ^a   Zaitsu, Yuri ^a   Matthews, Lucy ^a   Palace, Jacqueline ^a   Jezzard, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D DASH; cervical spinal cord imaging; CSF flow suppression; DANTE pulse; neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIZATION; NEUROIMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

3D-DASH; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CSF FLOW SUPPRESSION; DANTE PULSE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIZATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYS ALTERNATING WITH NUTATION FOR TAILORED EXCITATION PULSE TRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETISM; MALE; MULTIPLE-ECHO DATA IMAGE COMBINATION IMAGING; NERVE ROOT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL CORD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941903330     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25474     Document Type: Article

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