Brain Development and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Diffusion Tensor Imaging Biomarkers of Brain Development and Disease
... 1.4. Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance histology brain atlases To date, DT-MRH has been most extensively used for small animal brain imaging, particularly rats and ...in brain ...
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DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING
... Diffusion tensor imaging can be an important part of a comprehensive neurofunctional MRI ...these imaging modalities can be assessed for any developmental, aging, or degenerative process with ...
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In utero diffusion tensor imaging of the fetal brain: a reproducibility study
... normal brain development, is challenging due to the time constraints of fetal MRI and the relatively low number of such ...the brain anatomy is often affected by various pathologies, such as ...
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation
... biguous mTBI, the imaging data may add a quantifiable measure of white matter integrity to the body of evidence describing such patients. However, in these cases DTI would serve as superfluous evi- dence in ...
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Cost Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging and MR Tractography of the Brain
... http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Purpose: To determine the total direct costs (fixed and variable costs) of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and MR tractography reconstruction of ...
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Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging and fibre tractography in the brain
... acteristics of particular DT-MRI fibre tracking algorithms, and simulations on synthetic data in which the fibre geometry is known exactly can be used for this purpose. In particular, the limitations and requirements of ...
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Quantative analysis of brain white matter using diffusion tensor imaging
... 5 main interest of this research is to assess the condition of the white matter using DTI parameter indices, i.e. MD and FA and comparing it with normal brain tissue. This study tried to assess specifically each ...
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Severity of Spinal Cord Injury Influences Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Brain
... Resonance Imaging, Vol 43, ...the brain following spinal cord injury could differ in the human and rat ...the diffusion metrics resulted in significant changes with respect to injury severity, a ...
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Acute Effects of Alcohol on the Human Brain: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
... water diffusion along the white matter tracks, and ADC, which reflects overall ...certain brain regions: for example, in the genu of the corpus callosum; the centrum semiovale 12 ; and the frontal and ...
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High b Value Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Neonatal Brain at 3T
... in diffusion anisotropy with increasing b-value has not been previously investigated in ne- onates, and the results of previous studies in adults are con- ...adult brain studies 9,11 are not clear, as both ...
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Forensic Application of Postmortem Diffusion Weighted and Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging of the Human Brain in Situ
... MR imaging with a good correlation to ...postmortem brain in situ to evaluate DWI and DTI for forensic ...all brain regions, confirming previous studies, 26,28 agreeing also with clinical findings in ...
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Effects of Number of Diffusion Gradient Directions on Derived Diffusion Tensor Imaging Indices in Human Brain
... It is known that noise in DW images introduces errors in calculated diffusion tensor that propagates through diagonal- ization into final calculations of eigenvalues, FA, and diffusiv- ity. It is also ...
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Role of diffusion tensor imaging as an imaging biomarker and theranostic tool in structural imaging of traumatic brain injury
... the brain white matter), dependent on data quality, limited spatial resolution, dependent on data acquisition parameters, quantitative measures influenced by many non-biological factors, changes in quantitative ...
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Diffusion weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging in the evaluation of transplanted kidneys
... evaluate diffusion anisotropy measuring diffusion of water molecules for each single direction of the gradient ...as brain white matter, muscles and myocardium ...in brain study, particularly ...
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Diagnostic Utility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Differentiating Glioblastomas from Brain Metastases
... water diffusion in solid tumors has been re- ported by many ...in brain me- tastases also found a negative linear trend between FA and MD in glioblastomas, which was not seen in metastases, perhaps ...
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In Vivo Demonstration of Neuroinflammatory Molecule Expression in Brain Abscess with Diffusion Tensor Imaging
... Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a relatively new MR im- aging technique that has been shown to provide tissue micro- structural ...the brain abscess cavity has been ...the brain ...
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Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging of the Brain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Positive Patients
... lished data on DTI abnormalities of the hippocampus in HIV ⫹ patients. We have shown reduced FA and increase in the ADC values in the hippocampi of HIV ⫹ patients compared with controls. Unfortu- nately, the differences ...
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Peritumoral Diffusion Tensor Imaging of High Grade Gliomas and Metastatic Brain Tumors
... On conventional MR images, high-grade gliomas and solitary metastatic brain tumors often display similar signal intensity characteristics and contrast enhance- ment patterns. Figure 3 demonstrates a left temporal ...
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Brain Developmental Abnormalities in Prader-Willi Syndrome Detected by Diffusion Tensor Imaging
... Reduced FA in frontal white matter and posterior callosal connection indicate disintegrity in these regions, important for connecting cortices responsible for cogni- tive, visual, and spatial-perceptional function. 38 CC ...
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Diffusion tensor imaging in acute-to-subacute traumatic brain injury: a longitudinal analysis
... echo-planar imaging (SE-EPI) sequence (n = 10) or a twice refocused SE-EPI sequence [28] (n = ...6 diffusion-encoding directions were used for both the acute and subacute DTI ...6 diffusion-encoding ...
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