Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1270-1282 , November 2010

Spin-echo SS-PARSE: a PARSE MRI method to estimate frequency, R2 and R2′ in a single shot

  • Ningzhi Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-4440, USA
    • ,
  • Mark Bolding

      Affiliations

    • Center for Development of Functional Imaging, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-4440, USA
    • Department of Vision Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-4440, USA
    • ,
  • Donald B. Twieg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-4440, USA
    • Center for Development of Functional Imaging, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-4440, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Biomedical Engineering, Birmingham, AL 35294-4440, USA. Tel.: +1 205 934 8794.

Received 11 May 2010 ,Accepted 11 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.012

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1270-1282 , November 2010

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