Non-Gaussian diffusion in human brain tissue at high b-factors as examined by a combined diffusion kurtosis and biexponential diffusion tensor analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1087-1102

  Grinberg, Farida ^a   Farrher, Ezequiel ^a   Kaffanke, Joachim ^a   Oros Peusquens, Ana Maria ^a   Shah, N Jon ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biexponential tensor analysis; Diffusion kurtosis imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; High b factors; Human brain tissue; White matter mapping

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959692799     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.050     Document Type: Article

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