A novel method for simultaneous 3D B1 and T1 mapping: The method of slopes (MoS)

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1043-1055

  Chavez, Sofia ^a   Stanisz, Greg J ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

B1 inhomogeneities; Flip angle; SPGR; Spoiled gradient echo; T1 mapping

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL REGIONS; CORRECTION SCHEMES; DATA POINTS; FLIP ANGLE; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHOS; HIGH SNR; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; INHOMOGENEITIES; INITIAL ESTIMATE; MAPPING METHOD; NONLINEAR FITTING; SAMPLING SCHEMES; SPGR; SPOILED-GRADIENT-ECHO; STANDARD METHOD; TWO-POINT;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MAPPING; SIGNAL SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SAMPLING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84865299441     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2769     Document Type: Article

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