Characterizing magnetization exchange in healthy human brain and bovine brain

Multi component T₂ relaxation imaging is an established MRI technique for measuring myelin water (MW, water molecules trapped between myelin sheath bilayers). Myelin water fraction (MWF, the fraction of central nervous system water with a short T₂) has been quantitatively correlated to histological...

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Main Author: Kalantari, Saeed
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44475