Influence of water compartmentation and heterogeneous relaxation on quantitative magnetization transfer imaging in rodent brain tumors.
AUTHORS
Li
K ,
Li
H ,
Zhang
XY ,
Stokes
AM ,
Jiang
X ,
Kang
H ,
Quarles
CC ,
Zu
Z ,
Gochberg
DF ,
Gore
JC ,
Xu
J ,
. Magnetic resonance in medicine. 2016 8 ; 76(2). 635-44
- PMID: 26375875 [PubMed].
- PMCID: PMC4794427.
- NIHMSID: NIHMS712216
ABSTRACT
The goal of this study was to investigate the influence of water compartmentation and heterogeneous relaxation properties on quantitative magnetization transfer (qMT) imaging in tissues, and in particular whether a two-pool model is sufficient to describe qMT data in brain tumors.
The goal of this study was to investigate the influence of water compartmentation and heterogeneous relaxation properties on quantitative magnetization transfer (qMT) imaging in tissues, and in particular whether a two-pool model is sufficient to describe qMT data in brain tumors.
Tags: 2016