Quantification of microscopic diffusion anisotropy disentangles effects of orientation dispersion from microstructure: Applications in healthy volunteers and in brain tumors

NeuroImage

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 241-252

  Szczepankiewicz, Filip ^a   Lasič, Samo ^b   van Westen, Danielle ^a,c   Sundgren, Pia C ^a,c   Englund, Elisabet ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^d   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^a   Lätt, Jimmy ^c   Topgaard, Daniel ^a   Nilsson, Markus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CR Development AB   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Magic angle spinning of the q vector; Microscopic anisotropy; Microscopic fractional anisotropy; Order parameter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84949115815     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.057     Document Type: Article

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