Looking into the functional architecture of the brain with diffusion MRI

D Le Bihan - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2003 - nature.com
Water diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) allows tissue structure to be probed
and imaged on a microscopic scale, providing unique clues to the fine architecture of neural …

Diffusion MRI at 25: exploring brain tissue structure and function

D Le Bihan, H Johansen-Berg - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Diffusion MRI (or dMRI) came into existence in the mid-1980s. During the last 25years,
diffusion MRI has been extraordinarily successful (with more than 300,000 entries on …

Biexponential diffusion attenuation in various states of brain tissue: implications for diffusion‐weighted imaging

T Niendorf, RM Dijkhuizen, DG Norris… - Magnetic …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion‐weighted single voxel experiments conducted at b‐values up to 1× 104 smm− 2
yielded biexponential signal attenuation curves for both normal and ischemic brain. The …

Theoretical model for water diffusion in tissues

A Szafer, J Zhong, JC Gore - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Water diffusion in a tissue model is studied both analytically and numerically. Tissue is
regarded as a periodic array of boxes surrounded by partially permeable membranes (cells) …

Time-dependent diffusion of water in a biological model system.

LL Latour, K Svoboda, PP Mitra… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
Packed erythrocytes are ideally suited as a model system for the study of water diffusion in
biological tissue, because cell size, membrane permeability, and extracellular volume …

Three‐dimensional characterization of non‐gaussian water diffusion in humans using diffusion kurtosis imaging

H Lu, JH Jensen, A Ramani… - NMR in Biomedicine: An …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures water diffusion parameters based on
the assumption that the spin displacement distribution is a Gaussian function. However …

Stroke assessment with diffusional kurtosis imaging

ES Hui, E Fieremans, JH Jensen, A Tabesh, W Feng… - Stroke, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Despite being the gold standard technique for stroke
assessment, conventional diffusion MRI provides only partial information about tissue …

Water diffusion and acute stroke

P van Gelderen, MHM de Vleeschouwer… - Magnetic resonance …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The occlusion of the middle cerebral artery was used as an experimental acute stroke model
in 30 cats. The diffusion of water was followed by diffusion‐sensitized MRI between 1 and 15 …

[HTML][HTML] T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance in acute cardiac disease

I Eitel, MG Friedrich - Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2011 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) using T2-weighted sequences can visualize
myocardial edema. When compared to previous protocols, newer pulse sequences with …

Correction of motional artifacts in diffusion-weighted MR images using navigator echoes

RJ Ordidge, JA Helpern, ZX Qing, RA Knight… - Magnetic resonance …, 1994 - Elsevier
Patient motion can seriously degrade the quality of diffusion-weighted MR images obtained
using standard 2DFT imaging procedures. The main source of error arises from an MR …