Can diffusion kurtosis imaging improve the sensitivity and specificity of detecting microstructural alterations in brain tissue chronically after experimental stroke? Comparisons with diffusion tensor imaging and histology

NeuroImage

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 363-373

  Umesh Rudrapatna, S ^a   Wieloch, Tadeusz ^b   Beirup, Kerstin ^b   Ruscher, Karsten ^b   Mol, Wouter ^a   Yanev, Pavel ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^a   van der Toorn, Annette ^a   Dijkhuizen, Rick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic stroke; Diffusion; Diffusion kurtosis imaging; DKI; DTI; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN TISSUE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL STROKE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIA; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; RATS; STROKE;

EID: 84901450210     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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