Accuracy of gamma-variate fits to concentration-time curves from dynamic susceptibility-contrast enhanced MRI: Influence of time resolution, maximal signal drop and signal-to-noise

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-317

  Benner, Thomas ^a   Heiland, Sabine ^a   Erb, Gunter ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Sartor, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Concentration time curves; Gamma variate function; SNR; T2* weighted MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ARTIFACTS; BASAL GANGLIA; BLOOD VOLUME; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORPUS STRIATUM; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PENTETIC ACID; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030997814     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(96)00392-X     Document Type: Article

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