A new strategy for fast MRI-based quantification of the myelin water fraction: Application to brain imaging in infants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Kulikova, Sofya ^a,b,c   Hertz Pannier, Lucie ^a,b   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^a,b   Poupon, Cyril ^a,b   Dubois, Jessica ^a,b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MYELINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECONOMICS; MYELIN SHEATH; PROCEDURES;

WATER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; WATER; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84991487848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163143     Document Type: Article

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