Water diffusion in biomedical systems as related to magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-31

  Khanafer, K ^a   Vafai, K ^a   Kangarlu, A ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain disorders; Diffusion coefficient; Diffusion weighted MR imaging; Transport

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; CALCULATION; CELL VOLUME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; IMAGE DISPLAY; ISOTHERM; MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER TRANSPORT;

BODY WATER; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037217703     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00632-X     Document Type: Article

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