Ultrashort echo time (UTE) magnetic resonance imaging of the short T2 components in white matter of the brain using a clinical 3T scanner

NeuroImage

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-41

  Du, Jiang ^a   Ma, Guolin ^a,b   Li, Shihong ^a,e   Carl, Michael ^c   Szeverenyi, Nikolaus M ^a   VandenBerg, Scott ^a   Corey Bloom, Jody ^d   Bydder, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINA JAPAN FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL   (China)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adiabatic IR; Proton density; T2*; Ultrashort echo time; Ultrashort T2; White matter

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ADIABATIC IR; PROTON DENSITY; T2*; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME; ULTRASHORT T2; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84890873106     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.053     Document Type: Article

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