Scaling laws for transverse relaxation times

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-175

  Ziener, C H ^a   Kampf, T ^a   Melkus, G ^a   Jakob, P M ^a   Bauer, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Scaling; Susceptibility effects; Transverse relaxation

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SCALING LAWS; SUSCEPTIBILITY EFFECTS; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846066398     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2006.09.018     Document Type: Article

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