Diffusional kurtosis imaging: The quantification of non-Gaussian water diffusion by means of magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1432-1440

  Jensen, Jens H ^a   Helpern, Joseph A ^a   Ramani, Anita ^a   Lu, Hanzhang ^a   Kaczynski, Kyle ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion; Kurtosis; MRI; Neuropathology; Non Gaussian

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; DISPLACEMENT PROBABILITY; KURTOSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN WATER DIFFUSION; POST-PROCESSING PROCEDURE;

TISSUE;

WATER;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 19544371362     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20508     Document Type: Article

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