Signal intensity of motor and sensory cortices on T2-weighted and FLAIR images: Intraindividual comparison of 1.5T and 3T MRI

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2949-2955

  Kamada, Koji ^a   Kakeda, Shingo ^a   Ohnari, Norihiro ^a   Moriya, Junji ^a   Sato, Toru ^a   Korogi, Yukunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

3T MR; Brain anatomy; Brain cortex; Brain iron

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FLAIR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSORY CORTEX;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 56349089938     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1069-8     Document Type: Article

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