Blood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging of the kidneys: Influence of spatial resolution on the apparent R2* transverse relaxation rate of renal tissue

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 671-677

  Rossi, Cristina ^a   Sharma, Pankaj ^b   Pazahr, Shila ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Nanz, Daniel ^a   Boss, Andreas ^a  

^a University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^b Delhi State Cancer Institute   (India)

Author keywords

exponential fit; image resolution; macroscopic field inhomogeneity; multiecho GRE; norm of residuals; R; Transverse relaxation rate

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS;

EID: 84883465469     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31828b9830     Document Type: Article

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