Correction of errors caused by imperfect inversion pulses in MR imaging measurement of T1 relaxation times

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1049-1055

  Kingsley, Peter B ^a,b   Ogg, Robert J ^c,d   Reddick, Wilburn E ^c,e   Steen, R Grant ^c,d  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; Brain; Data analysis; Inversion recovery; T1 map

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032411369     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00112-X     Document Type: Article

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