ABSTRACT

Murat Aksoy, Samantha Holdsworth, Anh Tu Van, and Roland Bammer Stanford University

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is an MRI modality that is sensitive to the random Brownian motion of water molecules. By using this methodology, it is possible to probe tissue microstructure in the brain at a level that

CONTENTS

2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 41 2.2 Basic Principles of Diffusion-Weighted MRI ...........................................42