The optimal MR acquisition strategy for exponential decay constants estimation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 433-435

  Fleysher, Roman ^a   Fleysher, Lazar ^a   Gonen, Oded ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion, contrast agents, optimization methods; Exponential decay; T2

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 40049090400     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

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