Optimizing saturation-recovery measurements of the longitudinal relaxation rate under time constraints

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1202-1210

  Hsu, Jung Jiin ^a,b   Glover, Gary H ^a   Zaharchuk, Greg ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CSF; Longitudinal relaxation rate; MR oximetry; Pulse sequence optimization; Saturation recovery

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; CLINICAL FEASIBILITY; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; MONTE CARLO COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; OXIMETRY; PULSE SEQUENCE; THREE-POINT METHODS;

RECOVERY;

ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 70449396596     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22111     Document Type: Article

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