DTI at 7 and 3 T: Systematic comparison of SNR and its influence on quantitative metrics

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 739-751

  Choi, Seongjin ^a   Cunningham, Dustin T ^a   Aguila, Francisco ^a   Corrigan, John D ^a   Bogner, Jennifer ^a   Mysiw, W Jerry ^a   Knopp, Michael V ^a   Schmalbrock, Petra ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

7 T; DTI; Partial volume effects; SNR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO TIME; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ENCONDING FACTOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79959211395     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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