Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Kidney: Design and Evaluation of a Reliable Processing Pipeline

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 12789 - 10
• Main Authors: Borrelli, Pasquale, Cavaliere, Carlo, Basso, Luca, Soricelli, Andrea, Salvatore, Marco, Aiello, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.09.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 59/57; 639/166/985; 692/4022/272; Adult; Algorithms; Anisotropy; Blood vessels; Coefficient of variation; Correlation coefficient; Data processing; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Image processing; Kidney - diagnostic imaging; Kidneys; Magnetic resonance imaging; Male; Motion; multidisciplinary; Pipelines; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Tubules

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is particularly suitable for kidney studies due to tubules, collector ducts and blood vessels in the medulla that produce spatially restricted diffusion of water molecules, thus reflecting the high grade of anisotropy detectable by DTI. Kidney DTI is still a challengin...