DocumentCode
2136033
Title
Optimized data acquisition, reconstruction and postprocessing techniques for quantitative sodium imaging
Author
Boada, Fernando E. ; Gillen, Joseph S. ; Thulborn, Keith R.
Author_Institution
Med. Center, Pittsburgh Univ., PA, USA
Volume
3
fYear
1994
fDate
13-16 Nov 1994
Firstpage
20
Abstract
The paper discusses an integrated approach for optimal generation of in vivo tissue sodium concentration (TSC) maps using MR. It is demonstrated, with numerical simulations as well as experimental data, that the proposed approach generates TSC maps which exhibit less partial voluming effects and provide more accurate in vivo TSC estimates than those obtained by conventional means
Keywords
biomedical NMR; data acquisition; image reconstruction; optimisation; sodium; Na; in vivo TSC estimates; in vivo tissue Na concentration maps; optimized data acquisition; partial voluming effects; postprocessing techniques; quantitative Na imaging; reconstruction; Biological tissues; Data acquisition; Encoding; Image reconstruction; In vivo; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Radio frequency; Radiology; Sampling methods; Signal to noise ratio;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Image Processing, 1994. Proceedings. ICIP-94., IEEE International Conference
Conference_Location
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN
0-8186-6952-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICIP.1994.413896
Filename
413896
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