Multi-parametric MRI characterization of healthy human thigh muscles at 3.0 T - relaxation, magnetization transfer, fat/water, and diffusion tensor imaging

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1070-1084

  Li, Ke ^a   Dortch, Richard D ^a   Welch, E Brian ^a,b   Bryant, Nathan D ^a   Buck, Amanda K W ^a   Towse, Theodore F ^a   Gochberg, Daniel F ^a   Does, Mark D ^a,b   Damon, Bruce M ^a,b,c   Park, Jane H ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Quantitative magnetization transfer; Relaxometry; Reliability; Reproducibility; Skeletal muscle; Three point Dixon imaging

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; RELIABILITY; TENSORS;

BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISM; CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; RELAXOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP;

MUSCLE;

FAT; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THIGH; WATER CONTENT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; METABOLISM; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THIGH;

EID: 84905912889     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3159     Document Type: Article

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