Transverse relaxometry with reduced echo train lengths via stimulated echo compensation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1340-1346

  Uddin, Md Nasir ^a   Marc Lebel, R ^a   Wilman, Alan H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b General Electric Healthcare   (Canada)

Author keywords

iron; quantitative imaging; relaxometry; stimulated echo compensation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; IRON; MAGNETIZATION; RADIO WAVES;

HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RELAXOMETRY; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; STIMULATED ECHOS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION;

ROLLING RESISTANCE;

IRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

IRON; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; R2 MAPPING; RELAXOMETRY; STIMULATED ECHO COMPENSATION; T2;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886783621     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24568     Document Type: Article

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