Myelin water imaging: Implementation and development at 3.0T and comparison to 1.5T measurements

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-115

  Kolind, Shannon H ^a   Mädler, Burkhard ^a,b   Fischer, Stefan ^b   Li, David K B ^a   MacKay, Alex L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Myelin; Myelin water fraction; Water

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS; WATER;

FIELD STRENGTHS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MULTICOMPONENTS; MULTIEXPONENTIAL FIT; MYELIN; MYELIN WATER FRACTIONS; REPETITION TIME; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MYELIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE STANDARD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 67650067612     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21966     Document Type: Article

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