title: Retrieval of transverse relaxation time distribution from spin-echo data by recurrent neural network.
abstract: Inversion of transverse relaxation time decay curve from spin-echo experiments was carried out using Hopfield neural network, to obtain the transverse relaxation time distribution. The performance of this approach was tested against simulated and experimental data. The initial guess, necessary for the integration procedure, was established as the analytical Laplace inversion. Together with errors in the simulated data, inversion was also carried out with errors in this initial guess. The probability density function, calculated by the neural network, is used in multiple sclerosis diagnostics.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, ICEx, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: R C O
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Sebastião
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Braga
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D013997:Time Factors