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Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Skin

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Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging appears as one of the most multimodal imaging method which cannot only image skin and underlying structures at a submillimeter pixel size but also quantify molecular interactions such as water-macromolecular interactions.

This chapter will illustrate these aspects with a short review of the literature on healthy and diseased skin and also some new results obtained in our research group.

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Abbreviations

3D:

3 dimensional

FOV:

Field of view

MR:

Magnetic resonance

RF:

Radio frequency

SAT:

Subcutaneous adipose tissue

SD:

Standard deviation

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Acknowledgment

The author thanks all the members of IR4M UMR8081 CNRS, the University Paris Sud, for their outstanding contribution to these works. Most of them were conducted during collaborative projects.

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    Bernard Querleux

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    Howard I. Maibach

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Querleux, B. (2014). Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Skin. In: Berardesca, E., Maibach, H., Wilhelm, KP. (eds) Non Invasive Diagnostic Techniques in Clinical Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32109-2_15

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