Optimizing brain tissue contrast with EPI: A simulated annealing approach

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 373-385

  Ikonomidou, Vasiliki N ^a   Van Gelderen, Peter ^a   De Zwart, Jacco A ^a   Fukunaga, Masaki ^a   Duyn, Jeff H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tissue labeling; Double inversion recovery; Functional mapping; Optimization (simulated annealing); T1 weighting

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TISSUE;

BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; DOUBLE-INVERSION-RECOVERY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAPPING; T1 WEIGHTING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 22744445556     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20561     Document Type: Article

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