Using the biophysical CHARMED model to elucidate the underpinnings of contrast in diffusional kurtosis analysis of diffusion-weighted MRI

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 267-276

  Santis, Silvia De ^a,b   Assaf, Yaniv ^c   Jones, Derek K ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CHARMED; DKI; Dti

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84865047157     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-011-0292-5     Document Type: Article

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