Resolving relaxometry and diffusion properties within the same voxel in the presence of crossing fibres by combining inversion recovery and diffusion-weighted acquisitions

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 372-380

  De Santis, Silvia ^a,b   Barazany, Daniel ^a,b   Jones, Derek K ^a,c   Assaf, Yaniv ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CHARMED; diffusion tensor MRI; g ratio; myelin; white matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING;

CHARMED; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; G RATIO; MYELIN; WHITE MATTER;

FIBERS;

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULUM (BRAIN); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSSING FIBER; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; IN VIVO STUDY; INVERSION RECOVERY SPIN ECHO DIFFUSION WEIGHTED ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; MALE; MYELIN CONTENT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER ORIENTATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PIG; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; RELAXATION TIME; RELAXOMETRY; SIMULATION; TISSUE SLICE; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84923834068     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25644     Document Type: Article

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