Feasibility of in vivo myelin water imaging using 3D multigradient-echo pulse sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 523-528

  Lenz, C ^a   Klarhofer M ^a,b   Scheffler, K ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Siemens Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

in vivo imaging; multigradient echo pulse sequences; multiple sclerosis; myelin water fraction; non negative least squares algorithm

Indexed keywords

IN-VIVO IMAGING; LEAST SQUARES ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN WATER FRACTIONS; PULSE SEQUENCE;

MYELIN; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMYELINATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN WATER IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY MRI;

EID: 84863831579     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23241     Document Type: Article

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