Characterization of anomalous diffusion from MR signal may be a new probe to tissue microstructure

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2256-2259

  Özarslan, Evren ^a   Basser, Peter J ^a   Shepherd, Timothy M ^b   Thelwall, Peter E ^c   Vemuri, Baba C ^b   Blackband, Stephen J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TISSUE CULTURE;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; SELF-DIFFUSION; TISSUE GEOMETRY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34047100007     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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