Echo-planar imaging of the brain at 3.0 T: first normal volunteer results.
OBJECTIVE
To present the first echo-planar brain images of diagnostic quality obtained at 3.0 T and to point out some of the problems experienced in performing it.


METHODS
The results presented were obtained on volunteers using an in-house designed and constructed 3.0 T EPI imager.


RESULTS
The results demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining snapshot imaging comprising up to 256 x 256 pixels and corresponding to a spatial resolution of 0.75 x 0.75 mm2 with a slice thickness of 2.5 mm.


CONCLUSIONS
Potentially augmented diagnostic information can be obtained with high field EPI of the brain. Some susceptibility artifact is apparent at the bone-air interfaces as expected at 3.0 T.
Mansfield
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Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, University Park, U.K.
Coxon
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Glover
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D016477:Artifacts; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D017352:Echo-Planar Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012016:Reference Values