Criteria for analysis of multicomponent tissue T2 relaxation data

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 370-378

  Graham, Simon J ^a   Stanchev, Peter L ^a,b   Bronskill, Michael J ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

in vivo relaxometry; Monte Carlo simulations; relaxation time distributions; T2

Indexed keywords

PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

BREAST TISSUES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LARGE VOLUMES; LOCALIZATION METHOD; MULTICOMPONENTS; NUMBER OF DATUM; RELAXATION TIME DISTRIBUTION; RELAXOMETRY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030033486     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350315     Document Type: Article

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