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Sleuthing tissue fingerprints

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A type of data-acquisition sequence in magnetic resonance imaging has been developed that rapidly and robustly quantifies properties of imaged tissue by elucidating a characteristic signal fingerprint. See Article p.187

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Figure 1: Magnetic resonance fingerprinting.

DAN MA & MARK GRISW OLD

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  1. E. Brian Welch is at the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee 37232–2310, USA.,

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