Numerical solutions to the time-dependent Bloch equations revisited

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 126-131

  Murase, Kenya ^a   Tanki, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; APT MRI; Bloch equations; CEST MRI; Numerical solution

Indexed keywords

AMIDE PROTON TRANSFER IMAGING; ARTICLE; BLOCH EQUATION; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TIME; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649916470     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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