In vivo assessment of optimal b-value range for perfusion-insensitive apparent diffusion coefficient imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4832-4839

  Freiman, Moti ^a   Voss, Stephan D ^a   Mulkern, Robert V ^a   Perez Rossello, Jeannette M ^a   Callahan, Michael J ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

apparent diffusion coefficient; b value optimization; diffusion weighted imaging; intravoxel incoherent motion

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; B VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRACTION PARAMETERS; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; REFERENCE STANDARD; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 84864721315     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736516     Document Type: Article

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