ADC measurements at low and high b values: insight into normal brain structure with clinical DWI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-44

  García Santos, José María ^a   Ordóñez, Cristina ^a   Torres del Río, Silvia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MORALES MESEGUER   (Spain)

Author keywords

b value; Brain; Corpus callosum; Diffusion weighted imaging; Gray matter; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37449033480     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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