Quantitative susceptibility mapping for investigating subtle susceptibility variations in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2083-2100

  Schweser, Ferdinand ^a   Sommer, Karsten ^a   Deistung, Andreas ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen Rainer ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

COSMOS; Homogeneity Enabled Incremental Dipole Inversion; Magnetic susceptibility mapping; Phase imaging; Tissue susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMOGENEITY ENABLED INCREMENTAL DIPOLE INVERSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY ENABLED DIPOLE INVERSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; THRESHOLDED K SPACE DIVISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84863747371     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.067     Document Type: Article

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