Quantification of cerebral edema on diffusion tensor imaging in acute-on-chronic liver failure

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 713-722

  Nath, Kavindra ^a   Saraswat, Vivek A ^a   Krishna, Yellapu R ^a   Thomas, Michael A ^b   Rathore, Ram K S ^c   Pandey, Chandra M ^a   Gupta, Rakesh K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Acute on chronic liver failure; Cerebral edema; Chronic liver disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity; Spherical isotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COUPLINGS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTEROPERABILITY; LIVER; LYAPUNOV METHODS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; CEREBRAL EDEMA; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GREY MATTER; HEALTHY CONTROLS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; PLANAR ANISOTROPY; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPHERICAL ISOTROPY; WHITE MATTER;

TENSORS;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 49049117023     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1249     Document Type: Article

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