What causes the hyperintense T2-weighting and increased short T2 signal in the corticospinal tract?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 329-335

  Russell Schulz, Bretta ^a   Laule, Cornelia ^a   Li, David K B ^a   MacKay, Alex L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Geometric mean T2; Myelin water; Normal brain; T2 relaxation; White matter

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; T2 WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; ARTIFACT; BODY WATER; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BODY WATER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875244109     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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