In vivo morphological characterisation of skin by MRI micro-imaging methods

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 149-160

  Mirrashed, Fakhereh ^a   Sharp, Jonathan C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

In vivo; Magnetisation transfer; Micro MRI; Skin imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DERMIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MACROMOLECULE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; STRATUM CORNEUM; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WATER CONTENT; WATER TRANSPORT;

ADULT; ARM; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN;

EID: 4043090602     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2004.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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