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To review the basic physiological principles of diffusion-weighted imaging and evaluate its clinical diagnostic applications in cerebral stroke and traumatic head injury.

October 1, 2003European RadiologyOpen Access

Diffusion-weighted imaging: basic concepts and application in cerebral stroke and head trauma

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THThierry A. G. M. HuismanTexas Children's Hospital

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Narrative review demonstrates the diagnostic utility of diffusion-weighted imaging in acute cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury, highlighting its sensitivity to microstructural changes.

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To review the basic physiological principles of diffusion-weighted imaging and evaluate its clinical diagnostic applications in cerebral stroke and traumatic head injury.
Reviewed physiological mechanisms differentiating water molecule diffusion rates from conventional MRI tissue water contrasts.
Assessed diagnostic applications across acute cerebral ischemia, traumatic brain injury, and full-tensor white matter tract evaluation.
Diffusion-weighted imaging provides high sensitivity for the early detection of acute cerebral ischemia when conventional MRI remains unremarkable.
The technique differentiates lesions by decreased versus increased diffusion and shows diagnostic utility in evaluating traumatic brain injury.
Full-tensor diffusion-weighted imaging assesses white matter microarchitecture by measuring anisotropic diffusion distributions.

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Thierry A. G. M. Huisman (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71cb3684cc45bb7be002d6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-003-1843-6

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Narrative review demonstrates the diagnostic utility of diffusion-weighted imaging in acute cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury, highlighting its sensitivity to microstructural changes.

Diffusion-weighted imaging: basic concepts and application in cerebral stroke and head trauma

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Diffusion-weighted imaging: basic concepts and application in cerebral stroke and head trauma

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