White matter characterization with diffusional kurtosis imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-188

  Fieremans, Els ^a   Jensen, Jens H ^a   Helpern, Joseph A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Axonal density; Diffusion; Kurtosis; Microstructure; MRI; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AXONAL WATER FRACTION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; EXTRA AXONAL SPACE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRA AXONAL SPACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AXONS; BODY WATER; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960619279     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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