Diffusion Imaging: Insight to Cell Status and Cytoarchitecture
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Diffusion-weighted imaging
Original diffusion-weighted MR imaging of in vivo systems was performed in the 1980s [2], [10], [25], and excellent reviews on the technical aspects of diffusion imaging are available from several sources [6], [26], [27]. A brief qualitative synopsis of diffusion principles is presented herein. Molecular diffusion refers to the thermally driven random translational motion of molecules in media. Diffusion is also referred to as brownian motion in which media viscosity, temperature, and the
Diffusion imaging in tissue characterization
One of the earliest successful applications of DWI and ADC mapping was in the detection and characterization of stroke. As demonstrated by many investigators, DWI offers unique sensitivity to early ischemic damage in the brain [4], [5], [9]. Moreover, the DWI/ADC response is time dependent such that acute and old ischemic stroke can be distinguished. Acute ischemic stroke exhibits a hyperintensity on DWI (ie, low ADC). One prevalent theory is that acute ischemia leads to cytotoxic edema because
Summary
MR imaging methods such as DWI and DTI based on tissue biophysical properties are rapidly being incorporated in routine brain imaging protocols to improve the diagnosis, characterization, and management of patients with brain tumors. In the future, these methods combined with other physiology-based methods, such as MR perfusion and MRS metabolite mapping, as well as excellent anatomic images are anticipated to improve brain tumor diagnosis, biopsy guidance, pretreatment and presurgical
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This work was sponsored in part by NIH grant P01 CA 85878.
Thomas L. Chenevert and Brian D. Ross have intellectual property related to a portion of the underlying technology.