Analysis and correction of gradient nonlinearity bias in apparent diffusion coefficient measurements

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1312-1323

  Malyarenko, Dariya I ^a   Ross, Brian D ^a   Chenevert, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ADC systematic bias; diffusion MRI; gradient nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ERRORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MEASUREMENTS; DIFFUSION MRIS; GRADIENT NONLINEARITY; NONLINEARITY CORRECTION; SYSTEMATIC BIAS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; ROTATION; WAVEFORM; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 84894440139     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24773     Document Type: Article

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