Analysis of proton-density bias corrections based on T1 measurement for robust quantification of water content in the brain at 3 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1735-1745

  Abbas, Zaheer ^a   Gras, Vincent ^a   Möllenhoff, Klaus ^a,b   Keil, Fabian ^a   Oros Peusquens, Ana Maria ^a   Shah, Nadim J ^a,b,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral oedema; Parametric mapping; Proton density; Quantitative imaging; Water content

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; WATER CONTENT;

CEREBRAL OEDEMA; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; PARAMETRIC MAPPING; PROTON DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REGION OF INTEREST; TISSUE WATER CONTENT;

TISSUE;

PROTON; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DENSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRATION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROTON DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; REFERENCE VALUE; RELAXATION TIME; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE WATER; WATER CONTENT; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BODY WATER; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BODY WATER; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911984826     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25086     Document Type: Article

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