Myelin water mapping by spatially regularized longitudinal relaxographic imaging at high magnetic fields

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 375-387

  Labadie, Christian ^a,b,c   Lee, Jing Huei ^d   Rooney, William D ^e   Jarchow, Silvia ^f   Aubert Frécon, Monique ^b   Springer Jr , Charles S ^e   Möller, Harald E ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

inverse Laplace transform; longitudinal relaxation; myelin water; regularization

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVERSE TRANSFORMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; INVERSE LAPLACE TRANSFORM; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; REGULARIZATION; WATER MAPPING; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN;

MYELIN; PROTON; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MYELIN SHEATH; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WHITE MATTER;

INVERSE LAPLACE TRANSFORM; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; MYELIN WATER; REGULARIZATION;

ADULT; BODY WATER; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890797506     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24670     Document Type: Article

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