MRI Phantoms - Are There Alternatives to Agar?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Hellerbach, Alexandra ^a   Schuster, Verena ^a   Jansen, Andreas ^a   Sommer, Jens ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ALGINIC ACID; CARBOMER; CARBOMER 980; CARBOPOL 974P; GELLING AGENT; PAC 300; PNC 400; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHAN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT TREATMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PH; PHANTOM; RELAXATION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

AGAR; GELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84881121707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070343     Document Type: Article

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