High-resolution sodium imaging of human brain at 7 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 227-233

  Qian, Yongxian ^a   Zhao, Tiejun ^b   Zheng, Hai ^c   Weimer, Jonathan ^c   Boada, Fernando E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution; Sodium MRI; Sodium quantification; Sodium signal to noise ratio; Whole body 7 T MRI

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; SODIUM;

ANISOTROPIC DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SCANNER; NOMINAL VALUES; SLICE THICKNESS; SODIUM MRI; WHOLE BODY;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SODIUM;

7T MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DEVICES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY MRI;

EID: 84862241787     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23225     Document Type: Article

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