A new diffusion metric, diffusion kurtosis imaging, used in the serial examination of a patient with stroke

We report a case of a patient who developed a cerebral infarction, which was assessed using a new and advanced diffusion technique: diffusional kurtosis (DK) imaging. The signal changes on DK images were different from those on apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, and they seem to be useful fo...

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Main Authors: Hori, Masaaki, Aoki, Shigeki, Fukunaga, Issei, Suzuki, Yuriko, Masutani, Yoshitaka
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738332/