New insights into the fractional order diffusion equation using entropy and kurtosis

Entropy

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5838-5852

  Ingo, Carson ^a   Magin, Richard L ^b   Parrish, Todd B ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Continuous time random walk; Entropy; Fractional derivative; Kurtosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mittag Leffler function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911931568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e16115838     Document Type: Article

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