High-resolution diffusion kurtosis imaging at 3T enabled by advanced post-processing

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 427-

  Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^a,b   Tabelow, Karsten ^c   Ruthotto, Lars ^d   Feiweier, Thorsten ^e   Polzehl, Jörg ^c   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive smoothing; Diffusion kurtosis; DKI; DTI; Eddy current and motion artifacts; Gray matter; High resolution; Multi shell dMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RESTRICTED FIELD OF VIEW IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84921768425     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00427     Document Type: Article

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