Image registration for triggered and non‐triggered DTI of the human kidney: Reduced variability of diffusion parameter estimation

M Seif, H Lu, C Boesch, M Reyes… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background To investigate if non‐rigid image‐registration reduces motion artifacts in
triggered and non‐triggered diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of native kidneys. A secondary …

Diffusion tensor imaging of the human kidney: Does image registration permit scanning without respiratory triggering?

M Seif, LY Mani, H Lu, C Boesch… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To investigate if image registration of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) allows omitting
respiratory triggering for both transplanted and native kidneys Materials and Methods Nine …

Motion compensated renal diffusion weighted imaging

S McTavish, AT Van, JM Peeters… - Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To assess the effect of respiratory motion and cardiac driven pulsation in renal DWI
and to examine asymmetrical velocity‐compensated diffusion encoding waveforms for …

Comparison of physiological triggering schemes for diffusion‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging in kidneys

T Binser, HC Thoeny, U Eisenberger… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To determine the potential benefit of combined respiratory‐cardiac triggering for
diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) of kidneys compared to respiratory triggering alone (RT) …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion tensor imaging of the kidneys: influence of b-value and number of encoding directions on image quality and diffusion tensor parameters

NC Chuck, G Steidle, I Blume, MA Fischer… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate to which degree investment of
acquisition time in more encoding directions leads to better image quality (IQ) and what …

Diffusion tensor imaging of kidneys with respiratory triggering: optimization of parameters to demonstrate anisotropic structures on fraction anisotropy maps

M Kataoka, A Kido, A Yamamoto… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of kidneys with
respiratory triggering, and determine the optimal imaging parameters for fraction anisotropy …

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the kidney at 3 Tesla–feasibility, protocol evaluation and comparison to 1.5 Tesla

M Notohamiprodjo, O Dietrich, W Horger… - Investigative …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging
of the kidney at a field strength of 3T. We assessed fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent …

Retrospective Distortion and Motion Correction for Free‐Breathing DW‐MRI of the Kidneys Using Dual‐Echo EPI and Slice‐to‐Volume Registration

J Coll‐Font, O Afacan, S Hoge, H Garg… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Diffusion‐weighted MRI (DW‐MRI) of the kidneys is a technique that provides
information about the microstructure of renal tissue without requiring exogenous contrasts …

Diffusion tensor imaging of the kidney: design and evaluation of a reliable processing pipeline

P Borrelli, C Cavaliere, L Basso, A Soricelli… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is particularly suitable for kidney studies due to tubules,
collector ducts and blood vessels in the medulla that produce spatially restricted diffusion of …

Diffusion tensor MRI of the kidney at 3.0 and 1.5 Tesla

A Kido, M Kataoka, A Yamamoto, Y Nakamoto… - Acta …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at 3 T provides information on the microstructure
and pathophysiology of tissues that is not available from conventional imaging with an …