Improved quantitative myocardial T2 mapping: Impact of the fitting model

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 93-105

  Akçakaya, Mehmet ^a   Basha, Tamer A ^a   Weingärtner, Sebastian ^a,b   Roujol, Sébastien ^a   Berg, Sophie ^a   Nezafat, Reza ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

myocardial inflammation; myocardial T2 mapping; quantitative myocardial tissue characterization; three parameter fit

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; MAPPING; PHANTOMS;

3-PARAMETER MODELS; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; MYOCARDIAL INFLAMMATION; MYOCARDIAL TISSUE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; THREE PARAMETERS; THREE-PARAMETER MODELS; TWO-PARAMETER MODELS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MYOCARDIAL T2 MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; REFERENCE VALUE; SIMULATION;

EID: 84932198126     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25377     Document Type: Article

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