Fast bound pool fraction mapping using stimulated echoes

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 717-724

  Soellinger, M ^a   Langkammer, C ^a   Seifert Held, T ^a   Fazekas, F ^a   Ropele, S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

bound pool fraction; brain; magnetization transfer; MRI; myelin; STEAM; two pool model

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; LAKES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; MAMMALS; MAPPING; PHANTOMS; STEAM;

BOUND POOL FRACTION; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; MYELIN; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TWO-POOL MODELS;

BRAIN MAPPING;

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOUND POOL FRACTION; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PROTEIN CONTENT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 80051692729     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22846     Document Type: Article

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