Relationships between brain water content and diffusion tensor imaging parameters (apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy) in multiple sclerosis

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 898-904

  Sijens, Paul E ^a   Irwan, Roy ^a   Potze, Jan Hendrik ^a   Mostert, Jop P ^a   de Keyser, Jacques ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Brain; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN WATER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BODY WATER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 33644880534     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-0033-0     Document Type: Article

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