Diffusion tensor MR imaging of the human brain

Radiology

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 637-648

  Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a   Jezzard, Peter ^b   Basser, Peter J ^c   Barnett, Alan ^a   Di Chiro, Giovanni ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR), diffusion study; Magnetic resonance (MR), experimental; Magnetic resonance (MR), tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TISSUE TYPING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0029828575     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.201.3.8939209     Document Type: Article

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