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Diffusion kurtosis imaging of the pancreas for the assessment of HbA1c levels

, 2016
Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of diffusion kurtosis (DK) imaging of the pancreas for the assessment of hemoglobin (Hb) A1c values. Materials and Methods Our Institutional Review Board approved this prospective study and written informed consent was
Kondo, Hiroshi, Kanematsu, Masayuki, Tanahashi, Yukichi, Bae, Kyongtae T., Kawada, Hiroshi, Goshima, Satoshi, Takeda, Jun, Kawai, Nobuyuki, Noda, Yoshifumi, Watanabe, Haruo, Horikawa, Yukio   +10 more
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White matter changes in recovered COVID-19 patients: insights from DTI, DKI, and NODDI metrics

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundCOVID-19 affects not only the respiratory system but also the central nervous system, resulting in symptoms such as anosmia and confusion. Understanding the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19 is critical for comprehensive patient care ...
Manxi Yuan, Ruiqi Lu, Yu Liu, Yu Liu, Hui Zhu, Hui Zhu, Hui Zhu, Hui Zhu, Hao Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Yang Song, Yang Song, Yang Song, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Mingzhong Xiao, Mingzhong Xiao, Mingzhong Xiao, Mingzhong Xiao   +23 more
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Evaluation of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis using tract-based spatial statistics analysis: diffusion kurtosis imaging

BMC Neurology, 2018
Background Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) has the potential to provide microstructural insights into myelin and axonal pathology with additional kurtosis parameters.
Hai Qing Li, Bo Yin, Chao Quan, Dao Ying Geng, Hai Yu, Yi Fang Bao, Jun Liu, Yu Xin Li   +7 more
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Diagnostic performance of amide proton transfer-weighted imaging and four advanced diffusion-weighted MRI models for meningioma grading and subtyping

Cancer Imaging
Objective To compare the diagnostic performance of amide proton transfer-weighted (APTw), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI), and mean apparent propagator (MAP) in ...
Hua Zhang, Hongjie Huang, Yuwei Pan, Minxuan Tian, Guoqi Lin, Lukui Xiong, Yan Su, Xiance Zhao, Wei Guo, Dejun She   +9 more
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Diffusion kurtosis imaging of white matter in bipolar disorder

, 2021
White matter pathology likely contributes to the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder (BD). Most studies of white matter in BD have used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), but the advent of more advanced multi-shell diffusion MRI imaging offers the possibility ...
Shakeel, Mohammed K, David, Szabolcs, Emsell, Louise, De Luca, Alberto, Beasley, Clare, Goghari, Vina M, Kusi, Mavis, Leemans, Alexander   +7 more
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Kurtosis transformation and kurtosis ordering [PDF]

Leptokurtic distributions can be generated by applying certain non-linear transformations to a standard normal random variable. Within this work we derive general conditions for these transformations which guarantee that the generated distributions are ...
Fischer, Matthias J., Klein, Ingo
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High Resolution 3D Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging of Whole Rat Brain

, 2014
This thesis involves the development of an overnight high-resolution 3D diffusion kurtosis imaging protocol for ex vivo whole rat brain imaging. MRI acquisition parameters were optimized in order to obtain high-resolution, high-precision diffusion ...
Kelm, Nathaniel David
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Gliomas : diffusion kurtosis MR imaging in grading

, 2012
: Purpose: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of diffusion kurtosis magnetic resonance imaging parameters in grading gliomas. Materials and Methods: The institutional review board approved this prospective study, and informed consent was obtained from all
van Hecke, Wim, Peeters, Ronald, Veraart, Jelle, Sijbers, Jan, Van Cauter, Sofie, et al.   +5 more
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Assessment of chemotherapy response in non-Hodgkin lymphoma involving the neck utilizing diffusion kurtosis imaging: a preliminary study

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2017
PURPOSE:We aimed to examine the utility of non-Gaussian diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) for assessment of chemotherapy response in patients with cervical (neck) non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).METHODS:Patients with cervical NHL underwent 3.0 T magnetic ...
Rui Wu, Shi-Teng Suo, Lian-Ming Wu, Qiu-Ying Yao, Hong-Xia Gong, Jian-Rong Xu   +5 more
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Differentiating between Alzheimer’s disease, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and normal aging via diffusion kurtosis imaging

Neural Regeneration Research, 2019
Diffusion kurtosis imaging can be used to assess pathophysiological changes in tissue structure and to diagnose central nervous system diseases. However, its sensitivity in assessing hippocampal differences between patients with Alzheimer’s disease and ...
Guo-Ping Song, Ting-Ting Yao, Dan Wang, Yue-Hua Li   +3 more
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