Optimised diffusion-weighting for measurement of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in human brain

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 771-784

  Xing, Da ^a   Papadakis, Nikolaos G ^a   Huang, Christopher L H ^b   Lee, Vee Meng ^a   Carpenter, T Adrian ^a   Hall, Laurance D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Herchel Smith Lab for Med Chem   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC); Diffusion weighted echo planar imaging (DW EPI); Human brain imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; BODY FLUIDS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030982536     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00037-4     Document Type: Article

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