The influence of white matter fibre orientation on MR signal phase and decay

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-252

  Denk, Christian ^a   Torres, Enedino Hernandez ^a   Mackay, Alex ^a   Rauscher, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion tensor imaging; MRI phase contrast; R2; Susceptibility weighted phase imaging; White matter

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; PHASE CONTRASTS; R2; SUSCEPTIBILITY-WEIGHTED PHASE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

DIFFUSION; FADING (RADIO); FIBERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952723505     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1581     Document Type: Article

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