Quantitative water content mapping at clinically relevant field strengths: A comparative study at 1.5 T and 3 T

NeuroImage

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 404-413

  Abbas, Zaheer ^a,b   Gras, Vincent ^a   Möllenhoff, Klaus ^a   Oros Peusquens, Ana Maria ^a   Shah, Nadim Joni ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical field strength; Parametric mapping; Proton density; Quantitative imaging; Water content

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL WATER CONTENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; GRAY MATTER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

WATER;

ADULT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920150818     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.017     Document Type: Article

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