Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 61-68 , January 2006

Analysis of the distribution of diffusion coefficients in cat brain at 9.4 T using the inverse Laplace transformation

  • Itamar Ronen

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    • Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Tel.: +1 612 414 2360; fax: +1 612 414 2369.
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  • Steen Moeller

      Affiliations

    • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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  • Kamil Ugurbil

      Affiliations

    • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • ,
  • Dae-Shik Kim

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    • Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Received 14 July 2004 ,Accepted 18 October 2005.

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PII: S0730-725X(05)00327-9

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.10.023

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 61-68 , January 2006

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