Quantitative mapping of the per-axon diffusion coefficients in brain white matter

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1752-1763

  Kaden, Enrico ^a   Kruggel, Frithjof ^b   Alexander, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion MR imaging; fiber orientation distribution; microscopic diffusion anisotropy; per axon diffusion coefficients; powder average; spherical mean technique

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPHERES; TISSUE;

DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MR; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FIBER ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION; GRADIENT DIRECTION; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE MAPPING; SPHERICAL MEANS;

DIFFUSION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PER AXON DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929448973     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25734     Document Type: Article

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