A two-compartment phantom for VOI profile measurements in small-bore 31P MR spectroscopy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1761-1770

  Vikhoff, Barbro ^a,c   Stubgaard, Max ^b   Stensgaard, Anders ^b   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^a   Henriksen, Ole ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOPHYSICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GELS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS; SEPHAROSE;

EID: 0031862838     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/6/027     Document Type: Article

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