Diffusion imaging of brain tumors

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 849-864

  Maier, Stephan E ^a   Sun, Yanping ^b   Mulkern, Robert V ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Biexponential; Brain tumor; Diffusion; Edema; Gray matter; Kurtosis; Stretched exponential; White matter

Indexed keywords

BIEXPONENTIAL; BRAIN TUMOR; EDEMA; GRAY MATTER; KURTOSIS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DRUG THERAPY; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAKES; SECURITY OF DATA; TUMORS;

DIFFUSION;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650442823     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1544     Document Type: Review

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