MRI estimation of contrast agent concentration in tissue using a neural network approach

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-297

  Bagher Ebadian, Hassan ^a   Nagaraja, Tavarekere N ^a   Paudyal, Ramesh ^a   Whitton, Polly ^a   Panda, Swayamprava ^a   Fenstermacher, Joseph D ^a   Ewing, James R ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Capillary permeability; Look Locker; MRI contrast agent; MRI image processing; Quantitative autoradiography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

ADAPTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; INVERSION RECOVERY; LOOK-LOCKER; MRI CONTRAST AGENTS; MRI IMAGE; PHYSICAL FEATURES; QUANTITATIVE AUTORADIOGRAPHY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; IODINE 125; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TUMOR; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547934477     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21332     Document Type: Article

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