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Bernd Michael Mueller-Bierl, Kamil Uludag, Philippe L. Pereira, Fritz Schick, "Magnetic Field Distribution and Signal Decay in Functional MRI in Very High Fields (up to 9.4 T) Using Monte Carlo Diffusion Modeling", International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2007, Article ID 070309, 7 pages, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/70309
Magnetic Field Distribution and Signal Decay in Functional MRI in Very High Fields (up to 9.4 T) Using Monte Carlo Diffusion Modeling
Abstract
Extravascular signal decay rate R2 or R
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