Non-Gaussian diffusion imaging for enhanced contrast of brain tissue affected by ischemic stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Grinberg, Farida ^a,c   Farrher, Ezequiel ^a   Ciobanu, Luisa ^b   Geffroy, Françoise ^b   Le Bihan, Denis ^b   Shah, N Jon ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIEXPONENTIAL DIFFUSION TENSOR ANALYSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RATS; STROKE;

EID: 84896142778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089225     Document Type: Article

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