A Comparison of Mean Displacement Values Using High b-Value Q-Space Diffusion-weighted MRI with Conventional Apparent Diffusion Coefficients in Patients with Stroke

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 837-841

  Hori, Masaaki ^a,b   Motosugi, Utaroh ^a   Fatima, Zareen ^a   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^a   Ikenaga, Satoshi ^a   Ishigame, Keiichi ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^b   Onodera, Toshiyuki ^c   Yagi, Kazuo ^c   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADC maps; Apparent diffusion coefficient; Diffusion weighted image; Mean displacement; MRI; Q space; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEAN DISPLACEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q SPACE DIFFUSION WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 79958818210     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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