Feasibility of 39-potassium MR imaging of a human brain at 9.4 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1819-1825

  Atkinson, Ian C ^a   Claiborne, Theodore C ^a   Thulborn, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

brain. 9.4T; human; potassium MRI; ultrahigh field

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SODIUM;

HUMAN; HUMAN BRAIN; LOW RESOLUTION; PROJECTION IMAGING; QUALITATIVE IMAGING; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

POTASSIUM; SODIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POTASSIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84899423318     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24821     Document Type: Article

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