Quantitative T2 analysis: The effects of noise, regularization, and multivoxel approaches

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 212-217

  Bjarnason, Thorarin A ^a,c   McCreary, Cheryl R ^b   Dunn, Jeff F ^b   Mitchell, J Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Rat; T2 distribution; T2 relaxation; Voxel based analysis; White matter

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RATING; RATS;

MYELIN WATER FRACTIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO DECREASE; T2 DISTRIBUTION; T2 RELAXATION; VOXEL-BASED ANALYSIS; VOXEL-BASED APPROACHES; WHITE MATTER;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MYELIN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IN VIVO STUDY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73349083009     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22173     Document Type: Article

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