The role of diffusion tensor imaging in the evaluation of ischemic brain injury–a review

CH Sotak - NMR in Biomedicine: An International Journal …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Water diffusion in brain tissue is affected by the presence of barriers to translational motion
such as cell membranes and myelin fibers. The measured water apparent diffusion …

Magnetic resonance imaging of acute stroke

AE Baird, S Warach - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & …, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
In the investigation of ischemic stroke, conventional structural magnetic resonance (MR)
techniques (eg, T1-weighted imaging, T2-weighted imaging, and proton density-weighted …

Theoretical model for water diffusion in tissues

A Szafer, J Zhong, JC Gore - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Water diffusion in a tissue model is studied both analytically and numerically. Tissue is
regarded as a periodic array of boxes surrounded by partially permeable membranes (cells) …

Influx of leukocytes and platelets in an evolving brain infarct (Wistar rat)

JH Garcia, KF Liu, Y Yoshida, J Lian… - … American journal of …, 1994 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The results of several experimental studies of focal ischemia and anecdotal observations
suggest that leukocytes may contribute to the injury initiated by an arterial occlusion. The …

Time course of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) abnormality in human stroke

G Schlaug, B Siewert, A Benfield, RR Edelman… - Neurology, 1997 - neurology.org
Diffusion-weighted MRI can rapidly detect acute cerebral ischemic injury as hyperintense
signal changes, reflecting a decline in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of water …

Prediction of stroke outcome with echoplanar perfusion-and diffusion-weighted MRI

PA Barber, DG Darby, PM Desmond, Q Yang… - Neurology, 1998 - neurology.org
Objectives: We examined the utility of echoplanar magnetic resonance perfusion imaging
and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in predicting stroke evolution and outcome in 18 …

Cerebral ischemia and trauma—different etiologies yet similar mechanisms: neuroprotective opportunities

RR Leker, E Shohami - Brain Research Reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
Cerebral ischemia leads to brain damage caused by pathogenetic mechanisms that are also
activated by neurotrauma. These mechanisms include among others excitotoxicity, over …

Progression from ischemic injury to infarct following middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat

JH Garcia, Y Yoshida, H Chen, Y Li… - … American journal of …, 1993 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Focal brain ischemia induced in rats by occlusion of an intracranial artery is a widely used
paradigm of human brain infarct. Details of the structural changes that develop in either the …

Evolution of apparent diffusion coefficient, diffusion-weighted, and T2-weighted signal intensity of acute stroke

MG Lansberg, VN Thijs, MW O'Brien, JO Ali… - American Journal of …, 2001 - ajnr.org
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Serial study of such MR parameters as diffusion-weighted
imaging (DWI), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), ADC with fluid-attenuated inversion …

Diffusion tensor MR imaging of the brain and white matter tractography

ER Melhem, S Mori, G Mukundan, MA Kraut… - American Journal of …, 2002 - ajronline.org
Background Random motion of water molecules (diffusion) in the presence of a strong
magnetic gradient results in MR signal loss as a result of the dephasing of spin coherence …