Ultrashort echo time for improved positive-contrast manganese-enhanced MRI of cancer.

OBJECTIVE: Manganese (Mn) is a positive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that has been used to obtain physiological, biochemical, and molecular biological information. There is great interest to broaden its applications, but a major challenge is to increase detection sensitivity. Anot...

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Main Authors: Joris Tchouala Nofiele, Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3587583?pdf=render