Comparison of myelin water fraction from multiecho T2 decay curve and steady-state methods

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 223-232

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Kolind, Shannon H ^a   Laule, Cornelia ^a   Mackay, Alex L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

McDESPOT; Myelin water fraction; Steady state imaging; T2 relaxation

Indexed keywords

HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MCDESPOT; MULTICOMPONENTS; MYELIN WATER FRACTIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE METHOD; T2 RELAXATION;

BRAIN;

MYELIN; WATER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTICOMPONENT DRIVEN EQUILIBRIUM SINGLE PULSE OBSERVATION; MYELIN WATER FRACTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; ALGORITHM; BODY WATER; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84919837381     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25125     Document Type: Article

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