Applications of stimulated echo correction to multicomponent T2 analysis

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1803-1814

  Prasloski, Thomas ^a   Mädler, Burkhard ^b   Xiang, Qing San ^a   MacKay, Alex ^a   Jones, Craig ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended Phase Graph; myelin water fraction; stimulated echo

Indexed keywords

GRAPH ALGORITHMS;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; CORRECTION OF ERRORS; FITTING ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES FITTING; MYELIN WATER FRACTIONS; PHASE GRAPHS; SIMULTANEOUS EXTRACTIONS; STIMULATED ECHOS;

DATA MINING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXTENDED PHASE GRAPH ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTICOMPONENT T2 ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84861227345     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23157     Document Type: Article

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