Tissue border enhancement by inversion recovery MRI at 7.0 Tesla

Neuroradiology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 517-523

  Costagli, Mauro ^a,b   Kelley, Douglas A C ^c   Symms, Mark R ^d   Biagi, Laura ^b   Stara, Riccardo ^a,e   Maggioni, Eleonora ^f,g   Tiberi, Gianluigi ^a,b   Barba, Carmen ^h   Guerrini, Renzo ^b,h   Cosottini, Mirco ^a,e   Tosetti, Michela ^b  

^a IMAGO7 Foundation   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d GE Applied Science Laboratory   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomical imaging; Cortical malformations; Inversion recovery; Tissue interface; Ultra high field MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; EX VIVO STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROGYRIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84904889113     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-014-1365-8     Document Type: Article

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