Quantitative assessment of diffusional kurtosis anisotropy

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 448-459

  Glenn, G Russell ^a   Helpern, Joseph A ^a   Tabesh, Ali ^a   Jensen, Jens H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Diffusion; DKI; FA; GFA; KFA; Kurtosis; Non Gaussian

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS; TISSUE;

DKI; FA; GFA; KFA; KURTOSIS; NON-GAUSSIAN;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENERALIZED FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KURTOSIS FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84925293270     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3271     Document Type: Article

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