Determining and Optimizing the Precision of Quantitative Measurements of Perfusion from Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 575-584

  Dale, Brian M ^a,b   Jesberger, John A ^a   Lewin, Jonathan S ^a   Hillenbrand, Claudia M ^a   Duerk, Jeffrey L ^a,b,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI; Measurement error; Perfusion; Physiological modeling; Sequence optimization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFUSION;

EID: 0242300192     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10399     Document Type: Article

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