Gradient Echo Plural Contrast Imaging - Signal model and derived contrasts: T2 *, T1, Phase, SWI, T1f, FST2 *and T2 *-SWI

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1073-1082

  Luo, Jie ^a   Jagadeesan, Bharathi D ^b   Cross, Anne H ^c   Yablonskiy, Dmitriy A ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FLAIR; GEPCI; MRI; Multi channel coil; Multi contrast MRI; Phase; Phase unwrapping; SWI; T2*

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRADIENT ECHO PLURAL CONTRAST IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84856998747     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.108     Document Type: Article

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