Placental Insufficiency and Apparent Diffusion Coefficients

Comparison of apparent diffusion coefficients and distributed diffusion coefficients in high-grade gliomas.

PURPOSE To compare apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) with distributed diffusion coefficients (DDCs) in high-grade gliomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty patients with high-grade gliomas prospectively underwent diffusion-weighted MRI. Traditional ADC maps were created using b-values of 0 and 1000 s/mm(2). In addition, DDC maps were created by applying the stretched-exponential model using ...

Placental Insufficiency.

Apparent diffusion coefficients for differentiation of cerebellar tumors in children.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps provide information at MR imaging that may reflect cell attenuation and integrity. We hypothesized that cerebellar tumors in children can be differentiated by their ADC values. METHODS Brain MR imaging studies that included ADC maps were retrospectively reviewed in 32 patients with histologic...

Multi-component apparent diffusion coefficients in human brain.

The signal decay with increasing b-factor at fixed echo time from brain tissue in vivo has been measured using a line scan Stejskal-Tanner spin echo diffusion approach in eight healthy adult volunteers. The use of a 175 ms echo time and maximum gradient strengths of 10 mT/m allowed 64 b-factors to be sampled, ranging from 5 to 6000 s/ mm2, a maximum some three times larger than that typically u...

Ergotamine and Apparent Coronary Insufficiency.