Through-slice dephasing for eddy current artifact reduction in bSSFP
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چکیده
Eddy current effects can severely degrade image quality when using balanced steady-state free precession imaging with rapidly varying phase encode ordering schemes, which have common use in cardiac cine MRI. In this work, we explore and characterize a previouslyproposed technique, through-slice dephasing, as the sole technique for eddy current artifact removal. We demonstrate that artifacts vary for different slice orientations yet they can be removed using the herein investigated technique.
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دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012