Magnetic resonance elastography and diffusion-weighted imaging of the sol/gel phase transition in agarose

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 252-261

  Sack, Ingolf ^a   Gedat, Egbert ^a   Bernarding, Johannes ^b   Buntkowsky, Gerd ^c   Braun, Jürgen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agarose; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance elastography; Modulus of elasticity; Sol gel phase transition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SHEAR WAVES; SOL-GELS;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; WAVE PATTERNS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

SEPHAROSE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; GEL; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPERATURE;

ELASTICITY; GELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SEPHAROSE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0347600474     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2003.10.020     Document Type: Article

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