Unified segmentation based correction of R1 brain maps for RF transmit field inhomogeneities (UNICORT)

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2116-2124

  Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a   Lutti, Antoine ^a   Helms, Gunther ^b   Novak, Marianne ^a   Ashburner, John ^a   Hutton, Chloe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

B1 inhomogeneities; B1+; Bias correction; Quantitative MRI; RF transmit field inhomogeneities; T1 mapping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNIFIED SEGMENTATION BASED CORRECTION OF R1 BRAIN MAPS FOR RF TRANSMIT FIELD INHOMOGENEITIES; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650194424     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.023     Document Type: Article

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