Estimation of brain iron concentration in vivo using a linear relationship between regional iron and apparent transverse relaxation rate of the tissue water at 4.7T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1326-1330

  Mitsumori, Fumiyuki ^a   Watanabe, Hidehiro ^a   Takaya, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human brain; Iron; Macromolecular mass fraction; Transverse relaxation rate

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MACROMOLECULES; RATE CONSTANTS;

HUMAN BRAIN; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MASS FRACTION; RELAXATION RATE CONSTANT; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION RATE; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION TIME;

IRON;

IRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MAPPING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTIECHO ADIABATIC SPIN ECHO IMAGING SEQUENCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE WATER;

EID: 70449371466     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22097     Document Type: Article

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