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Abstract #0242

Uncertainty Maps in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

Anders Garpebring1, Patrik Brynolfsson1, Jun Yu2, Ronnie Wirestam3, Adam Johansson1, Thomas Asklund4, Mikael Karlsson1

1Dept. of Radiation Sciences, Ume University, Ume, Sweden; 2Centre of Biostatistics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ume, Sweden; 3Dept. of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund; 4Division of Oncology, Dept. of Radiation Sciences, Ume University, Ume, Sweden

In dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI, errors propagate in a highly non-trivial way from a number of sources of uncertainty to the parametric maps. A method for

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