The basis of anisotropic water diffusion in the nervous system–a technical review

C Beaulieu - NMR in Biomedicine: An International Journal …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Anisotropic water diffusion in neural fibres such as nerve, white matter in spinal cord, or
white matter in brain forms the basis for the utilization of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to …

Fiber tracking: principles and strategies–a technical review

S Mori, PCM Van Zijl - … : An International Journal Devoted to the …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The state of the art of reconstruction of the axonal tracts in the central nervous system (CNS)
using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is reviewed. This relatively new technique has …

Diffusion‐tensor MRI: theory, experimental design and data analysis–a technical review

PJ Basser, DK Jones - … : An International Journal Devoted to the …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This article treats the theoretical underpinnings of diffusion‐tensor magnetic resonance
imaging (DT‐MRI), as well as experimental design and data analysis issues. We review the …

Color schemes to represent the orientation of anisotropic tissues from diffusion tensor data: application to white matter fiber tract mapping in the human brain

S Pajevic, C Pierpaoli - … in Medicine: An Official Journal of the …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the use of color to represent the directional information contained in
the diffusion tensor. Ideally, one wants to take into account both the properties of human …

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging: its principle and applications

S Mori, PB Barker - … Record: An Official Publication of the …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most rapidly evolving techniques
in the MRI field. This method exploits the random diffusional motion of water molecules …

A simplified method to measure the diffusion tensor from seven MR images

PJ Basser, C Pierpaoli - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Analytical expressions of the diffusion tensor of water, D, and of scalar invariants derived
from it, are given in terms of the intensities of seven diffusion‐weighted images (DWIs) …

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in acute stroke

KJ Van Everdingen, J Van der Grond, LJ Kappelle… - Stroke, 1998 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is highly sensitive in detecting
early cerebral ischemic changes in acute stroke patients. In this study we compared the …

The role of diffusion tensor imaging in the evaluation of ischemic brain injury–a review

CH Sotak - NMR in Biomedicine: An International Journal …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Water diffusion in brain tissue is affected by the presence of barriers to translational motion
such as cell membranes and myelin fibers. The measured water apparent diffusion …

Multi-parametric neuroimaging reproducibility: a 3-T resource study

BA Landman, AJ Huang, A Gifford, DS Vikram, IAL Lim… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Modern MRI image processing methods have yielded quantitative, morphometric, functional,
and structural assessments of the human brain. These analyses typically exploit carefully …

Magnetic resonance imaging of acute stroke

AE Baird, S Warach - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & …, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
In the investigation of ischemic stroke, conventional structural magnetic resonance (MR)
techniques (eg, T1-weighted imaging, T2-weighted imaging, and proton density-weighted …