Measurement of kurtosis in renal apparent diffusion coefficient and the limitation of monoexponential model for quantification

Hsiang Yang Ma*, Jiann Der Lee

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Conventional diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures water diffusion parameters base on a gaussian function. However, water movement in biological tissue is often nongaussian and the non-gaussian behavior contain useful information related to tissue structure. This study is using the kidney of normal volunteers' image to demonstrate the biexponential model. The kurtosis can denote the extent nongaussianity of renal diffusion, so we use the many set of b-values to calculate the mean kurtosis image.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2010
Pages363-365
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2010 - Yantai, China
Duration: 16 10 201018 10 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2010 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2010
Volume1

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityYantai
Period16/10/1018/10/10

Keywords

  • Biexponential
  • Kurtosis
  • Non-gaussian

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