In vivo MRI of submillisecond T2 species with two-dimensional and three-dimensional radial sequences and applications to the measurement of cortical bone water

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-70

  Techawiboonwong, Aranee ^a   Song, Hee Kwon ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone water; Cortical bone; Half pulse; Radial imaging; Short T2

Indexed keywords

BONE; COLLAGEN; LIGAMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TENDONS;

BLOCH EQUATIONS; CORTICAL BONE; RADIAL IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WATER;

EID: 38949211045     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1179     Document Type: Article

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