Does diffusion kurtosis imaging lead to better neural tissue characterization? A rodent brain maturation study

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 386-392

  Cheung, Matthew M ^a   Hui, Edward S ^a   Chan, Kevin C ^a   Helpern, Joseph A ^b   Qi, Liqun ^c   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Developing brain; Diffusion kurtosis tensor; Directional kurtosis; DKI; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; GROUPS BY AGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60149098320     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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