Biexponential Diffusion Tensor Analysis of Human Brain Diffusion Data

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 321-330

  Maier, Stephan E ^a,b   Vajapeyam, Sridhar ^b   Mamata, Hatsuho ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a   Jolesz, Ferenc A ^a   Mulkern, Robert V ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biexponential signal decay; Diffusion tensor imaging; High b diffusion imaging; Line scan; White matter

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS;

B DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION DIRECTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; LINE SCAN; MONOEXPONENTIAL MODELS; SIGNAL DECAY; WHITE MATTER;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0842287530     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10685     Document Type: Article

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