Complex geometric models of diffusion and relaxation in healthy and damaged white matter

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 152-162

  Landman, Bennett A ^a   Farrell, Jonathan A D ^b,c   Smith, Seth A ^b,c   Reich, Daniel S ^c   Calabresi, Peter A ^c   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^b,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; DWI; Monte Carlo; Particle simulation; Random walk; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; DIFFUSIVITIES; DISPLACEMENT PROBABILITY; GEOMETRIC MODELS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; HIGHER ORDER; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; RANDOM WALK; REALISTIC MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIMPLE MODEL; SPECIALIZED HARDWARE; TIME CONSTANTS; TISSUE MICROSTRUCTURES; WHITE MATTER;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFUSION;

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

AXONS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERMEABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77149150322     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1437     Document Type: Article

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