In vivo sodium magnetic resonance imaging of the human brain using soft inversion recovery fluid attenuation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1305-1310

  Stobbe, Robert ^a   Beaulieu, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

FLAIR NMR; Intracellular weighting; MRI; Sodium

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RECOVERY; SODIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INTRACELLULAR WEIGHTING; INVERSION RECOVERY; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; REPETITION TIME; T2 RELAXATION;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID;

SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 27644485451     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20696     Document Type: Article

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