The effect of varying echo spacing within a multiecho acquisition: better characterization of long T2 components

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 840-847

  Skinner, Matthew G ^a   Kolind, Shannon H ^b   MacKay, Alex L ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human brain; Long T2 component; Multiecho pulse sequence; T2 relaxation

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; WATER;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RISK; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 34447556670     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.09.046     Document Type: Article

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