Monte Carlo study of a two-compartment exchange model of diffusion

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 711-724

  Fieremans, Els ^a   Novikov, Dmitry S ^a   Jensen, Jens H ^a   Helpern, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Diffusion; Diffusion weighted imaging; Exchange; K rger model; Kurtosis; Monte Carlo; Permeability

Indexed keywords

AXON; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXCHANGE; KURTOSIS; MONTE CARLO; PERMEABILITY;

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TWO COMPARTMENT EXCHANGE MODEL; WHITE MATTER;

BODY WATER; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650484475     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1577     Document Type: Article

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