Long component time constant of 23Na T*2 relaxation in healthy human brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 407-410

  Bartha, Robert ^a,b   Menon, Ravi S ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

4 Tesla; Human; MRI; Sodium; T*2; Transverse relaxation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIXELS; SODIUM;

4 TESLA; HUMAN; NONNEGATIVE LEAST SQUARES; PATHOLOGIC CONDITIONS; REGIONAL VARIABILITY; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; TISSUE SODIUM CONCENTRATION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION;

TISSUE;

SODIUM 23;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RELAXATION TIME; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 3543103275     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20144     Document Type: Article

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