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Tissue characterization and differentiation can be improved and quantitated by employing parameter-selective imaging. This method is based on multiecho MR images and the decomposition of multiexponential magnetization decays into monoexponential components (Gersonde et al. 1985). For each pixel a set of parameters (relaxation times T1i and T2i, fractions αi with ≦ i ≦ 3) is obtained providing a multidimensional parameter space. Each tissue type is characterized by a specific vector in this parameter space.
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Staemmler, M., Barth, P., Brill, R., Wern, H., Gersonde, K. (1990). Comparison of Algorithms for the Decomposition of Multiexponential Relaxation Processes Using SUNRISE. In: Higer, H.P., Bielke, G. (eds) Tissue Characterization in MR Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74993-3_11
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