Measuring small compartments with relatively weak gradients by angular double-pulsed-field-gradient NMR

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 401-407

  Morozov, Darya ^a   Bar, Leah ^a   Sochen, Nir ^a   Cohen, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bipolar Gradients; Compartment Size; Diffusion NMR; Double Pulsed Field Gradient (d PFG); Microstructure; NMR Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DOUBLE PULSED FIELD GRADIENT NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROCHEMISTRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84875236825     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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