T2 measurement in articular cartilage: Impact of the fitting method on accuracy and precision at low SNR

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 181-193

  Raya, José G ^a   Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Horng, Annie ^a   Weber, Jürgen ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Glaser, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cartilage; Precision; SNR; T2 fitting; T2 relaxation time

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CARTILAGE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RELAXATION TIME;

ACCURACY; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; BONE-CARTILAGE INTERFACE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PRECISION; T2 FITTING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73349125043     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22178     Document Type: Article

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