Characterizing healthy and diseased white matter using quantitative magnetization transfer and multicomponent T2 relaxometry: A unified view via a four-pool model

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1487-1496

  Levesque, Ives R ^a   Pike, G Bruce ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Four pool model; Magnetization transfer; White matter

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAKES;

BLOCH EQUATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; MULTICOMPONENTS; POOL MODELS; QUANTITATIVE MRIS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WHITE MATTER;

MAGNETIZATION;

LIPID; MYELIN; PROTEIN; PROTON; WATER;

ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WATER FLOW; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 73149102998     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22131     Document Type: Article

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