Fast low-angle shot diffusion tensor imaging with stimulated echo encoding in the muscle of rabbit shank

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 146-157

  Hiepe, Patrick ^a   Herrmann, Karl Heinz ^a   Güllmar, Daniel ^a   Ros, Christian ^a   Siebert, Tobias ^a,c   Blickhan, Reinhard ^a   Hahn, Klaus ^b   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Institute of Computational Biology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tractography; MRI; Muscles; Rabbit shank; STEAM; Stimulated echo; Turbo FLASH

Indexed keywords

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; RABBIT SHANK; STIMULATED ECHOS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TURBO-FLASH;

DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINNING (FIBERS); STEAM; TENSORS;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; MRI; MUSCLES; RABBIT SHANK; STEAM; STIMULATED ECHO; TURBO-FLASH;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; RABBITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84892898385     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3046     Document Type: Article

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