Comparison between balanced steady-state free precession and standard spoiled gradient echo magnetization transfer ratio imaging in multiple sclerosis: Methodical and clinical considerations

NeuroImage

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 87-94

  Amann, Michael ^a,b   Sprenger, Till ^a,b   Naegelin, Yvonne ^a   Reinhardt, Julia ^a   Kuster, Pascal ^b   Hirsch, Jochen G ^c   Kappos, Ludwig ^a   Radue, Ernst Wilhelm ^b   Stippich, Christoph ^a   Bieri, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Medical Image Analysis Center (MIAC AG)   (Switzerland)

^c FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balanced SSFP; Lesions; Magnetization transfer ratio; Multiple sclerosis; Normal appearing matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84922617255     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.045     Document Type: Article

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