Analysis and correction of biases in cross-relaxation MRI due to biexponential longitudinal relaxation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 830-838

  Mossahebi, Pouria ^a   Yarnykh, Vasily L ^b   Samsonov, Alexey ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

cross relaxation imaging; magnetization transfer; two pool model

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

BIEXPONENTIAL BEHAVIORS; CORRECTION APPROACHES; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; CROSS RELAXATION RATES; CROSS-RELAXATION IMAGING; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; TWO-POOL MODELS;

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIEXPONENTIAL LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IN VIVO STUDY; MODIFIED CROSS RELAXATION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THALAMUS; VARIABLE FLIP ANGLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892443176     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24677     Document Type: Article

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