Eliminating the blood-flow confounding effect in intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) using the non-negative least square analysis in liver

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 310-317

  Gambarota, Giulio ^a   Hitti, Eric ^a   Leporq, Benjamin ^b   Saint Jalmes, Hervé ^a,c   Beuf, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c CENTRE EUGÈNE MARQUIS   (France)

Author keywords

blood flow; diffusion; intravoxel incoherent motion; IVIM; liver; MRI; NNLS; perfusion

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

BLOOD FLOW; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; IVIM; NNLS; PERFUSION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

BLOOD FLOW; CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; LIVER; MOTION; PERFUSION; ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 85007190439     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26085     Document Type: Article

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