A robust methodology for in vivo T1 mapping

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1057-1067

  Barral, Joëlle K ^a   Gudmundson, Erik ^b   Stikov, Nikola ^a   Etezadi Amoli, Maryam ^a   Stoica, Petre ^b   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Nonlinear least squares; Relaxometry; Skin imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; BRAIN IMAGING; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES METHODS; RELAXOMETRY; SKIN IMAGING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SKIN; VALIDATION STUDY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 77957316915     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22497     Document Type: Article

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