Theory-Based Signal Calibration with Single-Point T1 Measurements for First-Pass Quantitative Perfusion MRI Studies

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 686-693

  Cernicanu, Alexandru ^a   Axel, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac perfusion; Signal calibration; T1 measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THEORY;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646171477     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.02.040     Document Type: Article

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