Long-term reproducibility of phantom signal intensities in nonuniformity corrected STIR-MRI examinations of skeletal muscle

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 201-209

  Viddeleer, Alain R ^a   Sijens, Paul E ^a   Van Ooijen, Peter M A ^a   Kuypers, Paul D L ^b   Hovius, Steven E R ^b   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Denervation; Image intensity; Measurements; MRI; Muscle; Reinnervation; Reproducibility; STIR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARDIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68849111569     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-009-0165-3     Document Type: Article

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