High-resolution 3D proton spectroscopic imaging of the human brain at 3 T: SNR issues and application for anatomy-matched voxel sizes

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 299-306

  Gruber, Stephan ^a   Mlynárik, Vladimir ^a   Moser, Ewald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain; Brain tumor; High field; Pelizaeus Merzbacher disease; Proton spectroscopic imaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMORS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; HIGH FIELD; MAGNETIC INHOMOGENEITIES; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SINGLE-VOXEL SPECTROSCOPIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PROTON SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBICULUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0037311513     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10377     Document Type: Article

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