Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 441-450 , April 2010

Improved B0 field map estimation for high field EPI

  • Dirk H.J. Poot

      Affiliations

    • IBBT-Visionlab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 3 265 24 58; fax: +32 3 265 22 45.
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  • Wouter Pintjens

      Affiliations

    • IBBT-Visionlab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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  • Marleen Verhoye

      Affiliations

    • IBBT-Visionlab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
    • Bio Imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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  • Annemie Van Der Linden

      Affiliations

    • Bio Imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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  • Jan Sijbers

      Affiliations

    • IBBT-Visionlab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium

Received 4 March 2009 ,Revised 15 September 2009 ,Accepted 6 December 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00312-9

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.020

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 441-450 , April 2010

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