Anisotropic anomalous diffusion assessed in the human brain by scalar invariant indices

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1043-1052

  De Santis, S ^a,b   Gabrielli, A ^a,c   Bozzali, M ^b   Maraviglia, B ^a,d   MacAluso, E ^b   Capuani, S ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c ISC CNR   (Italy)

^d MUSEO STORICO DELLA FISICA E CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE ENRICO FERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

anomalous diffusion; DTI; nongaussian diffusion; stretched exponential; water diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS;

ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; BRAIN ABNORMALITIES; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-GAUSSIAN DIFFUSIONS; PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL MODELS; WATER DIFFUSION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; ANISOTROPIC ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PUTAMEN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79952806370     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22689     Document Type: Article

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