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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2012
Ek Tsoon Tan, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Christopher Judson Hardy, Schenectady, NY (US);
Luca Marinelli, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ek Tsoon Tan, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Christopher Judson Hardy, Schenectady, NY (US);
Luca Marinelli, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for measuring diffusional anisotropy in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. The method includes determining an orientation diffusion function (ODF) for one or more fibers within a single voxel, wherein the ODF includes lobes representative of a probability of diffusion in a given direction for the one or more fibers. The method also includes characterizing an aspect ratio of the lobes. The method further includes determining a multi-directional anisotropy metric for the one or more fibers based on the aspect ratio of the lobes.