Impact of blood flow on diffusion coefficients of the human kidney: A time-resolved ECG-triggered diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) study at 3T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 233-236

  Heusch, Philipp ^a   Wittsack, Hans Jörg ^a   Kröpil, Patric ^a   Blondin, Dirk ^a   Quentin, Michael ^a   Klasen, Janina ^a   Pentang, Gael ^a   Antoch, Gerald ^a   Lanzman, Rotem S ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DTI; ECG gating; kidney

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; RENAL CIRCULATION; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872845654     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23751     Document Type: Article

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