Nuts and bolts of chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 810-828

  Liu, Guanshu ^a,b   Song, Xiaolei ^b   Chan, Kannie W Y ^b   Mcmahon, Michael T ^a,b  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CEST imaging; Contrast agents; Molecular imaging; MRI

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER; CONTRAST AGENT; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; SATURATION TRANSFER; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER; FREQUENCY LABELED TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE SEQUENCE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SATURATION PULSE; SATURATION TRANSFER; THEORY;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84879555302     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2899     Document Type: Article

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