Temperature-induced changes of magnetic resonance relaxation times in the human brain: A postmortem study

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1575-1580

  Birkl, Christoph ^a   Langkammer, Christian ^a   Haybaeck, Johannes ^a   Ernst, Christina ^a   Stollberger, Rudolf ^b   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Ropele, Stefan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

brain; magnetic resonance imaging; postmortem; relaxation; temperature dependency; thermometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; RELAXATION TIME; RESONANCE; THERMOMETERS; TISSUE;

HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO; POSTMORTEM; RELAXATION; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; THERMOMETRY;

TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN TISSUE; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXATION TIME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THALAMUS; THERMOMETER; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMORTEM; RELAXATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY; THERMOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84896542400     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24799     Document Type: Article

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