Quantifying cortical bone water in vivo by three-dimensional ultra-short echo-time MRI

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 855-864

  Rad, Hamidreza Saligheh ^a   Lam, Shing Chun Benny ^a   Magland, Jeremy F ^a   Ong, Henry ^a   Li, Cheng ^a   Song, Hee Kwon ^a   Love, James ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone water; Cortical bone; Deuterium exchange; Three dimensional ultra short echo time MRI

Indexed keywords

BONE WATER; CARTESIANS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORTICAL BONE; DATA SETS; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE; FRACTION OF LIGHT; IMAGING SEQUENCE; IN-VIVO; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; LARGE PORES; MOBILE WATER; RECEPTION FIELDS; RELAXATION RATES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SOFT TISSUE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRA-SHORT ECHO-TIME MRI; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

BONE; DEUTERIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

HEAVY WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORTICAL BONE; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; WATER;

EID: 80051577656     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1631     Document Type: Article

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