Biomimetic phantom for the validation of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 299-305

  Hubbard, Penny L ^a   Zhou, Feng Lei ^a   Eichhorn, Stephen J ^b   Parker, Geoffrey J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coaxial electrospinning; Diffusion MRI; Microstructure; Phantom; White matter

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSORS;

COAXIAL ELECTROSPINNING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION MRIS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER FIBERS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; POLITEF;

ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROSPINNING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HOLLOW FIBER; IMAGING PHANTOM; NEUROIMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84919846290     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25107     Document Type: Article

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