Basic principles of magnetic resonance imaging

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-64

  Gibby, Wendell A ^a  

^a Riverwoods Imaging Center   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ATOMIC PARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTHALPY; FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 9244259108     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2004.08.017     Document Type: Review

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