High-resolution diffusion tensor imaging of the human pons with a reduced field-of-view, multishot, variable-density, spiral acquisition at 3 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1007-1016

  Karampinos, Dimitrios C ^a,c   Van, Anh T ^b   Olivero, William C ^a   Georgiadis, John G ^a   Sutton, Bradley P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Partial volume effect; Pons; Reduced FOV; Variable density spiral

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE CODING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PONS; REDUCED FOV; SUSCEPTIBILITY DIFFERENCES; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VARIABLE DENSITY;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PONS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70349624584     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22105     Document Type: Article

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