Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 305-313 , April 2010

Quantitative SENSE-MRSI of the human brain

  • David Bonekamp

      Affiliations

    • Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    • F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, MRI 143C, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Tel.: +1 410 955 1740; fax: +1 410 955 9799.
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  • Mari A. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    • F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
    • ,
  • He Zhu

      Affiliations

    • Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    • F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • Peter B. Barker

      Affiliations

    • Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    • F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

Received 15 November 2008 ,Revised 27 July 2009 ,Accepted 26 November 2009.

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☆ Supported in part by NIH P41 RR015241 and R01 CA125258.

PII: S0730-725X(09)00281-1

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.11.003

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 305-313 , April 2010

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