[HTML][HTML] Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging: what makes water run fast or slow?

F Fornasa - Journal of clinical imaging science, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWI) obtains information useful
in diagnosing several diseases through the measurement of random, Brownian diffusion of …

Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of anisotropic water diffusion in cat central nervous system.

ME Moseley, Y Cohen, J Kucharczyk, J Mintorovitch… - Radiology, 1990 - pubs.rsna.org
The diffusion behavior of intracranial water in the cat brain and spine was examined with the
use of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, in which the direction of the …

Quantitative effects of inclusion of fat on muscle diffusion tensor MRI measurements

SE Williams, AM Heemskerk, EB Welch… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To determine the minimum water percentage in a muscle region of interest that
would allow diffusion tensor (DT−) MRI data to reflect the diffusion properties of pure muscle …

Anisotropic noise propagation in diffusion tensor MRI sampling schemes

PG Batchelor, D Atkinson, DLG Hill… - … in Medicine: An …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The subject of this study is the controversial choice of directions in diffusion tensor MRI (DT‐
MRI); specifically, the numerical algebra related to this choice. In DT‐MRI, apparent …

Diffusion tensor imaging in fixed brain tissue at 7.0 T

DN Guilfoyle, JA Helpern, KO Lim - NMR in Biomedicine: An …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this work is to assess the feasibility of performing quantitative in vitro brain
tissue diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measurements and to examine their comparability to in …

A geometric analysis of diffusion tensor measurements of the human brain

AL Alexander, K Hasan, G Kindlmann… - … in Medicine: An …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The degree of diffusion tensor anisotropy is often associated with the organization of
structural tissues such as white matter. Numerous measures of diffusion anisotropy have …

Biexponential diffusion tensor analysis of human brain diffusion data

SE Maier, S Vajapeyam, H Mamata… - … in Medicine: An …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have shown that in tissues over an extended range of b‐factors, the signal
decay deviates significantly from the basic monoexponential model. The true nature of this …

Theoretical models of the diffusion weighted MR signal

DA Yablonskiy, AL Sukstanskii - NMR in Biomedicine, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion MRI plays a very important role in studying biological tissue structure and
functioning both in health and disease. Proper interpretation of experimental data requires …

Measuring diffusion in the presence of material strain

TG Reese, VJ Wedeen, RM Weisskoff - Journal of Magnetic Resonance …, 1996 - Elsevier
Material strain during the course of diffusion encoding by MRI will in general change the
observed diffusional signal losses. These changes will occur even when the material returns …

Diffusion tensor MR imaging of the brain: effect of diffusion weighting on trace and anisotropy measurements

ER Melhem, R Itoh, L Jones… - American Journal of …, 2000 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In human brain, the relationship between MR signal and b
value is complicated by cerebral perfusion, restricted diffusion, anisotropy, cellular …