High-resolution quantitative sodium imaging at 9.4 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 342-351

  Mirkes, Christian C ^a,b   Hoffmann, Jens ^b   Shajan, G ^b   Pohmann, Rolf ^b   Scheffler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sodium MRI; Sodium quantification; Traveling wave; UTE imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TISSUE;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SIGNAL CALIBRATION; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SODIUM MRI; TRAVELING WAVE; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

SODIUM;

SODIUM;

ADULT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN TISSUE; CALIBRATION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIGH RESOLUTION QUANTITATIVE SODIUM IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VITREOUS BODY; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY MRI; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84919835576     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25096     Document Type: Article

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