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Aug 7, 2017  06:08 AM | han
breast dki
Hi,

Has anyone used this software for post processing of breast dki sequences (5 b values but only 3 directions)?


Thanks
Aug 7, 2017  11:08 AM | Russell Glenn - Medical University of South Carolina
RE: breast dki
Hi Han,

This software will not work for that data. To estimate the diffusion and kurtosis tensors, you would need at least 21 unique diffusion weighted images. For your data, you could estimate the directional diffusion and kurtosis by fitting the log signal to a quadratic. The tensors are particularly useful for white matter because of the structural anisotropy, but I assume in other tissue, such as breast, the directional values are what you would want.

Hope that helps,

Russell Glenn