Multi-echo length and offset VARied saturation (MeLOVARS) method for improved CEST imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 488-496

  Song, Xiaolei ^a,b   Xu, Jiadi ^a,b   Xia, Shuli ^b   Yadav, Nirbhay N ^a,b   Lal, Bachchu ^b   Laterra, John ^b,c,d   Bulte, Jeff W M ^a,b   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b   McMahon, Michael T ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor imaging; CEST; EPI; Length and offset VARied saturation (LOVARS); Multi echo LOVARS(MeLOVARS)

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR IMAGING; CEST; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER; ENHANCED CONTRAST; LENGTH AND OFFSET VARIED SATURATION (LOVARS); MULTI-ECHO LOVARS(MELOVARS); SATURATION TIME; TUMOR BOUNDARY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER IMAGING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MULTI ECHO LENGTH AND OFFSET VARIED SATURATION; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; TIME; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BRAIN TUMOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCID MOUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUMOR CELL LINE;

TUMOR PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84921435384     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25567     Document Type: Article

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