Ultrashort echo time magnetization transfer (UTE-MT) imaging of cortical bone
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Ultrashort echo time magnetization transfer (UTE-MT) imaging of cortical bone.
Magnetization transfer (MT) imaging is one way to indirectly assess pools of protons with fast transverse relaxation. However, conventional MT imaging sequences are not applicable to short T2 tissues such as cortical bone. Ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequences with TE values as low as 8 µs can detect signals from different water components in cortical bone. In this study we aim to evaluate two-d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: NMR in Biomedicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0952-3480
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3316