Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1374-1382 , November 2010

Three-dimensional T1, T2 and proton density mapping with inversion recovery balanced SSFP

  • Rexford D. Newbould

      Affiliations

    • GSK Clinical Imaging Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, W12 0NN London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 02080086264; fax: +44 02080086491.
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  • Stefan T. Skare

      Affiliations

    • Lucas MRS/I Center, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94306, USA
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  • Marcus T. Alley

      Affiliations

    • Lucas MRS/I Center, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94306, USA
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  • Garry E. Gold

      Affiliations

    • Lucas MRS/I Center, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94306, USA
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  • Roland Bammer

      Affiliations

    • Lucas MRS/I Center, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94306, USA

Received 4 December 2009 ,Revised 10 February 2010 ,Accepted 10 June 2010.

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☆ This work was supported in part by the NIH (1R01EB002771, 1R01EB002524), the Center of Advanced MR Technology at Stanford (P41RR09784), the Lucas Foundation and the Oak Foundation.

PII: S0730-725X(10)00161-X

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.004

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1374-1382 , November 2010

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