A hitchhiker's guide to diffusion tensor imaging

JM Soares, P Marques, V Alves, N Sousa - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) studies are increasingly popular among clinicians and
researchers as they provide unique insights into brain network connectivity. However, in …

A robust multi-shot scan strategy for high-resolution diffusion weighted MRI enabled by multiplexed sensitivity-encoding (MUSE)

N Chen, A Guidon, HC Chang, AW Song - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) data have been mostly acquired with
single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI) to minimize motion induced artifacts. The spatial …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of post-processing on spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging

S Mohammadi, P Freund, T Feiweier, A Curt… - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides information about the microstructure in the brain and
spinal cord. While new neuroimaging techniques have significantly advanced the accuracy …

Retrospective correction of physiological noise in DTI using an extended tensor model and peripheral measurements

S Mohammadi, C Hutton, Z Nagy… - Magnetic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor imaging is widely used in research and clinical applications, but this
modality is highly sensitive to artefacts. We developed an easy‐to‐implement extension of …

[HTML][HTML] DTI detects water diffusion abnormalities in the thalamus that correlate with an extremity pain episode in a patient with multiple sclerosis

M Deppe, D Müller, H Kugel, T Ruck, H Wiendl… - NeuroImage …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Various types of multiple sclerosis (MS) related pain have been discussed. One
concept is that deafferentation secondary to lesions in the spino-thalamo-cortical network …

Voxel‐based statistical analysis of fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy of unknown cause

SS Keller, T Ahrens, S Mohammadi… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT PURPOSE To determine regional alterations of fractional anisotropy (FA) and
mean diffusivity (MD) in patients with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐negative temporal …

Prospective and retrospective high order eddy current mitigation for diffusion weighted echo planar imaging

D Xu, JK Maier, KF King, BD Collick… - Magnetic resonance …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The proposed method is aimed at reducing eddy current (EC) induced distortion in
diffusion weighted echo planar imaging, without the need to perform further image …

Cortical plasticity is preserved in nondemented older individuals with severe ischemic small vessel disease

J List, T Duning, J Kürten, M Deppe… - Human Brain …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ischemic small vessel disease (SVD) is a common finding on routine scans in older people,
but cognitive sequelae vary considerably. To improve understanding of mechanisms …

Grasping multiple sclerosis: do quantitative motor assessments provide a link between structure and function?

R Reilmann, F Holtbernd, R Bachmann… - Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Motor disability in MS is commonly assessed by the Expanded Disability Status Scale
(EDSS). Categorical rating scales are limited by subjective error and inter-rater variability …

3-d residual eddy current field characterisation: applied to diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging

K O'Brien, A Daducci, N Kickler… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clinical use of the Stejskal-Tanner diffusion weighted images is hampered by the geometric
distortions that result from the large residual 3-D eddy current field induced. In this work, we …