Basics of diffusion and perfusion MRI

Applied Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 13-23

  Crawley, Adrian P ^a   Poublanc, Julien ^a   Ferrari, Paul ^a   Roberts, Timothy P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SPIN LABELING; STROKE;

EID: 0038746959     PISSN: 01609963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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