Direct saturation MRI: Theory and application to imaging brain iron

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 384-393

  Smith, Seth A ^a,b   Bulte, Jeff W M ^a,c   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain iron; Direct saturation; Magnetization transfer; Off resonance; Transverse relaxation

Indexed keywords

IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL SYSTEMS;

BRAIN IRON; DIRECT SATURATION; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; OFF-RESONANCE; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION;

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

IRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749096074     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21980     Document Type: Article

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