Diffusion tensor MRI of the kidney at 3.0 and 1.5 Tesla

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1059-1063

  Kido, Aki ^a   Kataoka, Masako ^a,b   Yamamoto, Akira ^a   Nakamoto, Yuji ^a   Umeoka, Shigeaki ^a   Koyama, Takashi ^a   Maetani, Yoji ^a   Isoda, Hiroyuki ^a   Tamai, Ken ^a   Morisawa, Nobuko ^a   Saga, Tsuneo ^c   Mori, Susumu ^d   Togashi, Kaori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Fractional anisotropy; High field MRI

Indexed keywords

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; DIFFUSION DIRECTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIGH FIELD MRI; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; IMPROVED SNR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL CORTEX; RENAL MEDULLA; SUBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; T-IMAGE;

ANISOTROPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE DIFFUSION; THERMAL STRESS;

TENSORS;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77958039632     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841851.2010.504741     Document Type: Article

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