The role of gray and white matter segmentation in quantitative proton MR spectroscopic imaging

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1392-1400

  Tal, Assaf ^a   Kirov, Ivan I ^a   Grossman, Robert I ^a   Gonen, Oded ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gray matter; Segmentation; Spectroscopic quantification MRS; White matter

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION; GRAY MATTER; MEASUREMENT TIME; METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS; MR SPECTROSCOPY; MYO-INOSITOL; N-ACETYLASPARTATE; ONE-EQUATION; PARTIAL VOLUME CORRECTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PARTIAL VOLUMES; SAMPLE SIZES; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SPECTROSCOPIC QUANTIFICATION MRS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; WHITE MATTER;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

METABOLITES;

CHOLINE; CREATINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN SIZE; CALCULATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; METABOLOME; MIDDLE AGED; PROTONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868125887     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2812     Document Type: Article

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