The design of anisotropic diffusion phantoms for the validation of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5405-5419

  Fieremans, Els ^a   De Deene, Yves ^b   Delputte, Steven ^a   Özdemir, Mahir S ^a   Achten, Eric ^b   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATOMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; NON-INVASIVE; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATIONS; RELAXIVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURING; WATER MOLECULES; WHITE MATTER;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 51849119588     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/19/009     Document Type: Article

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