Optimal experimental design for filter exchange imaging: Apparent exchange rate measurements in the healthy brain and in intracranial tumors

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1104-1114

  Lampinen, Björn ^a   Szczepankiewicz, Filip ^a   van Westen, Danielle ^a,b   Englund, Elisabet ^a   C Sundgren, Pia ^a,b   Lätt, Jimmy ^b   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^a   Nilsson, Markus ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cell membrane permeability; diffusion MRI; filter exchange imaging; study design

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FINANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TUMORS;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIFFUSION MRIS; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; INTRACRANIAL TUMORS; OPTIMAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION; STUDY DESIGN;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; APPARENT EXCHANGE RATE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FILTER EXCHANGE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84960539189     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26195     Document Type: Article

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