Estimating T1 from multichannel variable flip angle SPGR sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1787-1794

  Trzasko, Joshua D ^a   Mostardi, Petrice M ^a   Riederer, Stephen J ^b   Manduca, Armando ^a  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

non linear least squares; relaxometry; variable flip angle

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; FLIP ANGLE; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHOS; MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVERS; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RELAXOMETRY;

ARTICLE; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELAXATION TIME MAPPING; SPOILED GRADIENT RECALLED ECHO; VARIABLE FLIP ANGLE; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878198146     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24401     Document Type: Article

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