Brain tissue compartment density estimated using diffusion-weighted MRI yields tissue parameters consistent with histology

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3687-3702

  Sepehrband, Farshid ^a   Clark, Kristi A ^b   Ullmann, Jeremy F P ^a   Kurniawan, Nyoman D ^a   Leanage, Gayeshika ^a   Reutens, David C ^a   Yang, Zhengyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MRI; DTI; Electron microscopy; NODDI; Tissue compartment density; Validation

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; MYELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL MEMBRANE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEURITE; NEURITE ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION AND DENSITY IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; C57BL MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MYELIN SHEATH; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYELIN SHEATH; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84939473527     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22872     Document Type: Article

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