… of tissue water varies with the tissue's orientation (anisotropic diffusion, Figure I).Diffusion
tensor MRI (DT-MRI) provides a measurement of an effective or apparent diffusion tensor (D) in …

… the DT-MRI data as discrete noisy samples of an underlying macroscopic diffusion tensor …
Elsewhere, we showed that the elements of the diffusion tensor obtained by DT-MRI are …

… Quantitative-diffusion—tensor MRI, which we introduce here, … diffusion tensor, D) that
measure different intrinsic features of … quantitative imaging parameters from the diffusion tensor. …

… of the effective diffusion tensor of water in tissue. It also tries … We focus primarily upon diffusion
tensor MRI (DT-MRI) data … derived from the effective diffusion tensor, such as the Trace as …

… in Monte Carlo–simulated diffusion tensor MRI data in media … utility of DT-MRI data in
characterizing tissue microstructure … and eigenvectors obtained from diffusion tensor MRI data. …

… In fact, DT-MRI is the only method of which we … tissue in vivo (and was developed, in part,
to address this unmet need). In vitro validation of fiber tract direction fields obtained by DT-MRI …

… DT-MRI is a relatively recent MR imaging modality used for relating image intensities to the
relative mobility of endogenous tissue water molecules. In DT-MRI, a tensor describing local …

… In fact, DT-MRI is the only method of which we are aware that permits the calculation and
visualization of fibertract trajectories in optically turbid tissue in vivo (and was developed, in part…

… density function of the trace of the diffusion tensor for three different tissue types and for the
voxels that clearly deviate from Normality. For each tissue type two examples are shown. The …

… tissue) is relatively small in comparison with the tissue strains so that we are justified in
approximating the physiological response using a biphasic model 24. Second, we assume that …