On the inherent precision of mcDESPOT

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-136

  Lankford, Christopher L ^a,b   Does, Mark D ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao; mcDESPOT; MRI; myelin; relaxometry

Indexed keywords

LAKES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONSTRAINED PARAMETERS; CRAMER-RAO; DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; MCDESPOT; MYELIN; RELAXOMETRY; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TISSUE CHARACTERISTICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MCDESPOT; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84872872374     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24241     Document Type: Article

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