Estimating the apparent transverse relaxation time (R2*) from images with different contrasts (ESTATICS) reduces motion artifacts

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a   Callaghan, Martina F ^a   Josephs, Oliver ^a,b   Lutti, Antoine ^c   Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apparent transverse relaxation; Artifacts; Motion; Multiple contrasts; Quantitative imaging; Robust fit; T2*; Transverse relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTRAST; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RELAXATION TIME; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 84907202831     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00278     Document Type: Article

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