Quantitative 1H spectroscopic imaging of human brain at 4.1 T using image segmentation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-29

  Hetherington, Hoby P ^a,b   Pan, Jullie W ^b   Mason, Graeme F ^a   Adams, Dorothy ^d   Vaughn, Michael J ^e   Twieg, Donald B ^c   Pohost, Gerald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

1H spectroscopic imaging; image segmentation; multiple sclerosis; quantitation

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INTERNAL STANDARDS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUANTITATION; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGES; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; TISSUE COMPOSITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHOLINE; CREATININE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CREATINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ASPARTIC ACID; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOLINE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CREATINE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LINEAR MODELS; LIPID METABOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029665603     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360106     Document Type: Article

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