Developing a quality control protocol for diffusion imaging on a clinical MRI system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1409-1422

  Delakis, Ioannis ^a   Moore, Elizabeth M ^b   Leach, Martin O ^b   De Wilde, Janet P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT (ADC); BASELINE SIGNAL INTENSITY; DIFFUSION IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL PROTOCOL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

COPPER SULFATE; SUCROSE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME;

ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; COPPER SULFATE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 2342645444     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/8/003     Document Type: Article

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