A comparison between equations describing in vivo MT: The effects of noise and sequence parameters

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-183

  Cercignani, Mara ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human brain; Magnetization transfer; MRI; Relaxation; Two pool model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; HUMAN BRAINS; TWO-POOL MODELS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 40949121044     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

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