Combined MR measurements of magnetization transfer, tissue diffusion and proton spectroscopy. A feasibility study with neurological cases

Neurological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 292-300

  Back, Tobias ^a   Möckel, Regina ^b   Hirsch, Jochen G ^b   Gaa, Jochen ^b   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^a   Hennerici, Michael G ^b   Gass, Achim ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain pathology; Diffusion imaging; Magnetization transfer; Proton MR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE DIFFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0242584827     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201373     Document Type: Article

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