Use of ethylene glycol to evaluate gradient performance in gradient-intensive diffusion MR sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 319-324

  Spees, William M ^a   Song, Sheng Kwei ^a   Garbow, Joel R ^a   Neil, Jeffrey J ^a   Ackerman, Joseph J H ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Gradient calibration; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL SHIFT; ETHYLENE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS; POLYOLS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFUSION MRIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GRADIENT CALIBRATION; GRADIENT PERFORMANCE; NMR CHEMICAL SHIFTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EVALUATION; LIQUID; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOMETER; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84862255484     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23201     Document Type: Article

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