MR image segmentation and tissue metabolite contrast in 1H spectroscopic imaging of normal and aging brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 841-845

  Lundbom, Nina ^a,d,e   Barnett, Alan ^a   Bonavita, Simona ^a   Patronas, Nicholas ^b   Rajapakse, Jagath ^c   Tedeschi, Gioacchino ^a   Di Chiro, Giovanni ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aging; Atrophy; HSI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN; CHROMIUM METALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLITES;

ATROPHY; GRAY MATTER; METABOLITE ANALYSIS; METABOLITE CHANGES; N-ACETYL ASPARTATE; QUANTITATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCES; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PROTON;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032965357     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199904)41:4<841::AID-MRM25>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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