Magnetic Resonance Relaxation and Quantitative Measurement in the Brain

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 711, Issue , 2011, Pages 65-108

  Deoni, Sean C L ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal relaxation; quantitative imaging; relaxometry; transverse relaxation

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SPIN LABELING; TIME;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROTONS; SPIN LABELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955672720     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61737-992-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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