Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate: Improved robustness with stretched exponential modeling

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 695-703

  Mazaheri, Yousef ^a,b   Afaq, Asim ^b   Rowe, Daniel B ^c   Lu, Yonggang ^a   Shukla Dave, Amita ^a,b   Grover, Jarrett ^a  

^a Department of Medical Physics ^*  (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM); Prostate MR imaging; Stretched exponential diffusion model

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISEASES; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UROLOGY;

DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTION; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; MR IMAGING; PROSTATE MR IMAGING; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL DIFFUSION MODEL;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84870861795     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e31826bdbbd     Document Type: Article

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