Towards quantitative MRI for the clinic
Physica Medica - European Journal of Medical Physics, will publish a Focus Issue entitled “Towards quantitative MRI for the clinic” focused on methods for standardisation, accuracy, reproducibility and harmonisation in MRI.
Pathological conditions often cause alterations in tissues, whose intrinsic physical parameters can be measured by different Magnetic Resonance (MR) techniques. The presence of such alterations on images has been extensively used as indications of disease; however, to classify alterations as biomarkers of disease, it is necessary to introduce quantitative measurements in the clinical setting placing great emphasis on clinical validation and planning techniques using MRI .
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