Statistical evaluation of diffusion-weighted imaging of the human kidney

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 616-622

  Wittsack, Hans Jörg ^a   Lanzman, Rotem S ^a   Mathys, Christian ^a   Janssen, Hendrik ^a   Mödder, Ulrich ^a   Blondin, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADC; Biexponential; Diffusion; Distribution function; Kidney; MRI

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; BIEXPONENTIAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; KIDNEY; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; MONOEXPONENTIAL MODELS;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955101411     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22436     Document Type: Article

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