Effects of diffusional kurtosis imaging parameters on diffusion quantification

Radiological Physics and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 343-348

  Fukunaga, Issei ^a,b   Hori, Masaaki ^b   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^c   Hamasaki, Nozomi ^b   Sato, Shuji ^b   Suzuki, Yuriko ^d   Kumagai, Fumitaka ^a,b   Kosuge, Masatsugu ^a,b   Hoshito, Haruyoshi ^b   Kamagata, Koji ^b   Shimoji, Keigo ^b   Nakanishi, Atsushi ^b   Aoki, Shigeki ^b   Senoo, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

b value; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion time; Diffusional kurtosis imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; MPG direction

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TIME; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KERNEL METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880310269     PISSN: 18650333     EISSN: 18650341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12194-013-0206-5     Document Type: Article

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