Diffusion-weighted imaging of the entire spinal cord

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 174-181

  Wilm, B J ^a,b   Gamper, U ^a   Henning, A ^a   Pruessmann, K P ^a   Kollias, S S ^b   Boesiger, P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Reduced field of view; Spinal cord; Spine

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED IMAGING; REDUCED FIELD OF VIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINE;

DIFFUSION; DOSIMETRY;

TENSORS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FIELD OF VIEW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTER VOLUME SUPPRESSION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 64549095635     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1298     Document Type: Article

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