Construction of a temperature-controlled diffusion phantom for quality control of diffusion measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 692-698

  Reischauer, Carolin ^a,b   Staempfli, Philipp ^a   Jaermann, Thomas ^a   Boesiger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; Diffusion parameters; MRI; Optimization; Phantom; Verification

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 63449083056     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21665     Document Type: Article

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