Single-shot localized echo-planar imaging (STEAM-EPI) at 4.7 tesla.
The resolution and homogeneity limitations of echo-planar imaging (EPI) are overcome by zoom imaging of an easily shimmed localized volume. Use of the stimulated echo enables single-shot localization. In vivo 0.5-mm resolution EPI images of selected regions of a cat brain at 4.7 T are presented.
Turner
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Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
von Kienlin
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Moonen
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van Zijl
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D002415:Cats; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*