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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 1994. Proceedings. ICIP-94., IEEE International Conference
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6952-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.1994.413896
