Apparent transverse relaxation rate in human brain varies linearly with tissue iron concentration at 4.7 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1054-1060

  Mitsumori, Fumiyuki ^a   Watanabe, Hidehiro ^a   Takaya, Nobuhiro ^a   Garwood, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulse; Human brain; Iron; Transverse relaxation rate

Indexed keywords

IRON; RELAXATION TIME;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ADIABATIC PULSE; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMAN BRAIN; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; LINEAR COEFFICIENTS; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION RATE; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION TIME;

BRAIN;

AGAROSE; IRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; RELAXATION TIME; TISSUE LEVEL;

EID: 35948977751     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21373     Document Type: Article

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