Toward understanding transverse relaxation in human brain through its field dependence

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 947-953

  Mitsumori, Fumiyuki ^a   Watanabe, Hidehiro ^a   Takaya, Nobuhiro ^a   Garwood, Michael ^b   Auerbach, Edward J ^b   Michaeli, Shalom ^b   Mangia, Silvia ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

field dependence; human brain; iron; macromolecule; transverse relaxation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IRON; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MACROMOLECULES; RATE CONSTANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENT-MAGNETIC FIELDS; FIELD DEPENDENCE; HUMAN BRAIN; LEAST SQUARE FITTING METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION RATE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

IRON; PROTON; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER;

EID: 84865489172     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23301     Document Type: Article

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