Comprehensive brain analysis with automated high-resolution magnetization transfer measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-317

  Wu, Ying ^a,b   Du, Hongyan ^a   Storey, Pippa ^c   Glielmi, Christopher ^d   Malone, Fiona ^a,b   Sidharthan, Shawn ^a   Ragin, Ann ^e   Tofts, Paul S ^f   Edelman, Robert R ^a  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3T; magnetization transfer imaging; magnetization transfer ratio; reproducibility; segmentation; volume of interest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84863079351     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22835     Document Type: Article

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