Visualization of intra-thalamic nuclei with optimized white-matter-nulled MPRAGE at 7T

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 534-545

  Tourdias, Thomas ^a   Saranathan, Manojkumar ^a   Levesque, Ives R ^a   Su, Jason ^a   Rutt, Brian K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; Thalamic nuclei; Thalamus; Ultra high field; White matter nulled MPRAGE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION PREPARED RAPIDLY ACQUIRED GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THALAMIC NUCLEI; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84884760329     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.069     Document Type: Article

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