Systematic analysis of the intravoxel incoherent motion threshold separating perfusion and diffusion effects: Proposal of a standardized algorithm

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1414-1422

  Wurnig, Moritz C ^a   Donati, Olivio F ^a   Ulbrich, Erika ^a   Filli, Lukas ^a   Kenkel, David ^a   Thoeny, Harriet C ^b   Boss, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

diffusion weighted imaging; intravoxel incoherent motion; magnetic resonance; pseudodiffusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MUSCLE;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; PSEUDO DIFFUSIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS; STANDARDIZED ALGORITHMS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; LIVER LOBE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ABDOMEN; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84944809685     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25506     Document Type: Article

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