Advantages and pitfalls in 3T MR brain imaging: a pictorial review.

From its very beginning, MR as an imaging method suffered from inherently low signal intensity. A typical way to compensate for low signal intensity is the repetition of measurements, which causes long imaging times. Besides that, a variety of different approaches are used to increase signal

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