A simulation environment for diffusion weighted MR experiments in complex media

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 771-778

  Balls, Gregory T ^a,d   Frank, Lawrence R ^a,b,c  

^a Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; High angular resolution diffusion; Monte Carlo model; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; PACKING DENSITY; PARALLEL PLATES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; STRAIGHT FIBERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERMEABILITY; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 69449097089     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22033     Document Type: Article

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