Optimising time-varying gradient orientation for microstructure sensitivity in diffusion-weighted MR

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 344-354

  Drobnjak, Ivana ^a   Alexander, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon diameter; Diffusion MR; Double wave vector; Double PGSE; Generalized gradient waveform; Microstructure imaging; OGSE; Oscillating gradients; PGSE; Pore size

Indexed keywords

AXON DIAMETER; DOUBLE WAVE VECTOR; DOUBLE-PGSE; GENERALIZED GRADIENTS; OGSE; OSCILLATING GRADIENTS; PGSE;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AXONS; BRAIN; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 80053238451     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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