Diffusional kurtosis imaging of normal-appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis: Preliminary clinical experience

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-55

  Yoshida, Mariko ^a   Hori, Masaaki ^a   Yokoyama, Kazumasa ^a   Fukunaga, Issa ^b   Suzuki, Michimasa ^a   Kamagata, Koji ^a   Shimoji, Keigo ^a   Nakanishi, Atsushi ^a   Hattori, Nobutaka ^a   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^c   Aoki, Shigeki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusional kurtosis; DKI; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Non Gaussian; Normal appearing white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84872675869     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-012-0147-7     Document Type: Article

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