Quantitative susceptibility mapping by inversion of a perturbation field model: Correlation with brain iron in normal aging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 339-353

  Poynton, Clare B ^a   Jenkinson, Mark ^b   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^c,d   Sullivan, Edith V ^e   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^e,f   Wells, William ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlases; brain iron; inverse methods; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); normal aging; quantitative susceptibility mapping

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAPPING; MAPS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; TISSUE;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ATLASES; BRAIN IRON; INVERSE METHODS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; SUSCEPTIBILITY DIFFERENCES; SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING;

BRAIN MAPPING;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; IRON;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIPOLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; MAGNETISM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUTAMEN; QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; RED NUCLEUS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937538891     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2358552     Document Type: Article

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