Diffusion-Weighted MRI in Severe Leukoaraiosis

Leukoaraiosis, ischemic stroke, and normal white matter on diffusion-weighted MRI.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Leukoaraiosis is a radiological finding of uncertain pathogenesis with bilateral patchy or diffuse areas of hyperintensity of the cerebral white matter (WM) on T2-weighted MRI. Using diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI), we aimed to test (1) whether the average apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC(av)) values of the regions of leukoaraiosis vary according to the degree of the seve...

the importance of diffusion weighted imaging in breast mri

objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the value of diffusion weighted imaging in diffusion weighted imaging in distinguishing between in benign and malignant breast lesion methods there were 37 female patients with 47 lesions. sixty seven female subjectd (40 mean age ) ,age ranges 17-69 , with histopathologically proven breast lesions underwent dwi of breasts with a single shot echo ...

Anomalous relaxation in diffusion - weighted MRI

for the time dependence of the macoscopic magnetisation M(t) of a sample under the influence of an external field H(t) where γ =μ / Ih is the gyromagnetic ratio of the nuclei under consideration with magnetic moment μ and spin I, i, j, and k are the usual triad of unit vectors along the Cartesian axes. The external field has the form H(t) = H0k + H1(t), where H0 is strong and constant while H1 ...

Diffusion-weighted MRI in acute subcortical infarction.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Conventional imaging lacks sensitivity and specificity for the detection of early subcortical cerebral infarction. The purposes of our study were (1) to determine the accuracy of diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI for early subcortical infarction and (2) to determine the efficacy of DW MRI for differentiating acute from nonacute subcortical infarctions when conventional MR demon...

Computed diffusion-weighted MRI in prostate cancer