Parameter estimation approach to banding artifact reduction in balanced steady-state free precession

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 880-892

  Björk, Marcus ^a   Ingle, R Reeve ^b   Gudmundson, Erik ^c   Stoica, Petre ^a   Nishimura, Dwight G ^b   Barral, Joëlle K ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

banding artifacts; bSSFP; LORE; off resonance; parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BANDING ARTIFACT; BSSFP; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LORE; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; OFF-RESONANCE; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; BANDING ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAMER RAO BOUND; GAUSS NEWTON ALGORITHM; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VIVO STUDY; LINEARIZATION FOR OFF RESONANCE ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; WHITE MATTER; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 85027937296     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24986     Document Type: Article

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