Keyhole and zero-padding approaches for reduced-encoding diffusion tensor imaging of the mouse brains

Myocardial fiber orientation mapping using reduced encoding diffusion tensor imaging.

A precise knowledge of the myocardial fiber architecture is essential to accurately understand and interpret cardiac electrical and mechanical functions. Diffusion tensor imaging has been used to noninvasively and quantitatively characterize myocardial fiber orientations. However, because the approach necessitates diffusion to be measured in multiple encoding directions and frequently at multip...

Diffusion Tensor Spectroscopic Imaging of Rat Brains

Introduction Diffusion-weighted spectroscopy and diffusion-weighted spectroscopic imaging (DWSI) are expected to provide useful information about tissue microstructures and functions [1]. The diffusion tensor of metabolites is expected to provide more specific microstructures of such neurons; however, only a few studies using diffusion tensor spectroscopy (DTS) [2,3] and no studies using diffus...

Reduced-Encoding Imaging of Diffusion Anisotropy

Z-P. Liang, A. H. Poonawalla, D. Hernando, L. Ying, X. J. Zhou Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States, Department of Imaging Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Milw...

The Benefits and implementations of Diffusion tensor imaging and Neural Fiber Tractography in Brain Surgery

Background and Aim: The methods for detecting brain activation with fMRI, MRI provides a way to measure the anatomical connections which enable lightning-fast communication among neurons that specialize in different kinds of brain functions. Diffusion tensor imaging is able to measure the direction of bundles of the axonal fibers which are all aligned. Besides mapping white matter fiber tracts,...

Will diffusion tensor imaging assess rewiring in PVS' brains?