Applications of diffusion-weighted and diffusion tensor MRI to white matter diseases - A review

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 570-577

  Horsfield, Mark A ^a   Jones, Derek K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Disease; DTI; MRI; Tensor; White matter

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

WHITE MATTER DISEASES;

DISEASES;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; WHITE MATTER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIV INFECTIONS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; WATER;

EID: 0036869345     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.787     Document Type: Review

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