On- and off-resonance spin-lock MR imaging of normal human brain at O.1 T: Possibilities to modify image contrast

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1191-1199

  Ramadan, Usama Abo ^a,b   Markkola, Antti T ^a   Halavaara, Juha ^a   Tanttu, Jukka ^c   Häkkinen, Anna Maija ^a   Aronen, Hannu J ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brain; MT; Off resonance spin lock; On resonance spin lock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032418408     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00146-5     Document Type: Article

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