TY - JOUR
T1 - Highly diffusion-sensitized MRI of brain
T2 - Dissociation of gray and white matter
AU - Yoshiura, Takashi
AU - Wu, Ona
AU - Zaheer, Atif
AU - Reese, Timothy G.
AU - Gregory Sorensen, A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The brains of six healthy volunteers were scanned with a full tensor diffusion MRI technique to study the effect of a high b value on diffusion-weighted images (DWIs). The b values ranged from 500 to 5000 s/mm2. Isotropic DWIs, trace apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, and fractional anisotropy (FA) maps were created for each b value. As the b value increased, ADC decreased in both the gray and white matter. Furthermore, ADC of the white matter became lower than that of the gray matter, and, as a result, the white matter became brighter than the gray matter in the isotropic DWIs. Quantitative analysis showed that these changes were due to nonmonoexponential diffusion signal decay of the brain tissue, which was more prominent in white matter than in gray matter. There was no significant change in relation to the b value in the FA maps. High b value appears to have a dissociating effect on gray and white matter in DWIs.
AB - The brains of six healthy volunteers were scanned with a full tensor diffusion MRI technique to study the effect of a high b value on diffusion-weighted images (DWIs). The b values ranged from 500 to 5000 s/mm2. Isotropic DWIs, trace apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, and fractional anisotropy (FA) maps were created for each b value. As the b value increased, ADC decreased in both the gray and white matter. Furthermore, ADC of the white matter became lower than that of the gray matter, and, as a result, the white matter became brighter than the gray matter in the isotropic DWIs. Quantitative analysis showed that these changes were due to nonmonoexponential diffusion signal decay of the brain tissue, which was more prominent in white matter than in gray matter. There was no significant change in relation to the b value in the FA maps. High b value appears to have a dissociating effect on gray and white matter in DWIs.
KW - DWI
KW - Diffusion
KW - Fractional anisotropy
KW - Gray and white matter
KW - Human brain
KW - Nonmonoexponential decay
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U2 - 10.1002/mrm.1100
DO - 10.1002/mrm.1100
M3 - Article
C2 - 11323798
AN - SCOPUS:0035034310
VL - 45
SP - 734
EP - 740
JO - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
JF - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
SN - 0740-3194
IS - 5
ER -