A novel multiparametric approach to 3D quantitative MRI of the brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Palma, Giuseppe ^a   Tedeschi, Enrico ^b   Borrelli, Pasquale ^c   Cocozza, Sirio ^b   Russo, Carmela ^b   Liu, Saifeng ^d   Ye, Yongquan ^e   Comerci, Marco ^a   Alfano, Bruno ^a   Salvatore, Marco ^c   Haacke, E Mark ^e,f   Mancini, Marcello ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

^d MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (Canada)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; FREE INDUCTION DECAY RATE; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LONGITUDINAL RATE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPARAMETRIC APPROACH; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROTON DENSITY; PURE TRANSVERSE RATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY INHOMOGENEITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE BLOCH EQUATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; STUDY DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84942645691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134963     Document Type: Article

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