Development and validation of a new MRI simulation technique that can reliably estimate optimal in vivo scanning parameters in a glioblastoma murine model

• Andrea Protti ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andrea_protti@DFCI.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Imaging, Lurie Family Imaging Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5461-5826

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• Kristen L. Jones,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Imaging, Lurie Family Imaging Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Dennis M. Bonal,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Imaging, Lurie Family Imaging Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lei Qin,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Imaging, Lurie Family Imaging Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Letterio S. Politi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Neuroimaging Research, Radiology Department, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Radiology Department, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Sasha Kravets,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2230-1691

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• Quang-Dé Nguyen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Imaging, Lurie Family Imaging Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Annick D. Van den Abbeele

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Imaging, Lurie Family Imaging Center, Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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