Simultaneous measurement of saturation and relaxation in human brain by repetitive magnetization transfer pulses

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-50

  Helms, Gunther ^a,b,c   Piringer, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human brain; Magnetisation transfer; Progressive saturation; Quantification; Relaxation

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MACROMOLECULES; MAGNETIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

CEREBRO-SPINAL FLUIDS; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER (MT); PULSE REPETITION PERIOD (PR);

BRAIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

ILEX COOKII;

EID: 14844309329     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.920     Document Type: Article

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