Quantitative diffusion coefficient maps using fast spin-echo MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 877-886

  Brockstedt, Sara ^a   Thomsen, Carsten ^b   Wirestam, Ronnie ^b   Holtås, Stig ^b   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diffusion; Fast spin echo; Motion compensating gradients; Navigator echoes; Phase correction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0031770120     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00002-2     Document Type: Article

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