A preliminary study of the effects of trigger timing on diffusion tensor imaging of the human spinal cord

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1952-1961

  Summers, P ^a   Staempfli, P ^a,b   Jaermann, T ^a,b   Kwiecinski, S ^a   Kollias, Spyros S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TUMOR; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; DIASTOLE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NERVE FIBERS; OXIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DISEASES; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749650160     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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