Quantification of holmium-166 loaded microspheres: Estimating high local concentrations using a conventional multiple gradient echo sequence with S 0-fitting

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1453-1461

  Van De Maat, Gerrit H ^a   Seevinck, Peter R ^a   Bos, Clemens ^b   Bakker, Chris J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

holmium loaded microspheres; quantification; S0 estimation; T2*relaxometry; ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; MICROSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EX VIVO STUDY; IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIGRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG CARRIERS; HOLMIUM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RABBITS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862094289     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23593     Document Type: Article

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