Clinically constrained optimization of flexTPI acquisition parameters for the tissue sodium concentration bioscale

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1089-1099

  Atkinson, Ian C ^a   Lu, Aiming ^a   Thulborn, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

flexTPI; quantification; resolution; sodium imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SODIUM;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; FLEXTPI; PROJECTION IMAGING; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTIFICATION BIAS; TISSUE SODIUM CONCENTRATION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

SODIUM 23;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PARENCHYMA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; TISSUE LEVEL;

EID: 80052965967     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22908     Document Type: Article

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