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. 2017 Dec;12(12):1974-1975.
doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.221149.

Advanced diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of white matter axons in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Masaaki Hori  1 , Kouhei Kamiya  2 , Ryusuke Irie  3
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Advanced diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of white matter axons in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Masaaki Hori et al. Neural Regen Res. 2017 Dec.
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Figure 1
Example images of QSI analysis using the two-component low-q fit model. A 65-year-old man with iNPH. Examples of the raw diffusion image (b = 3,000 s/mm2) for q-space imaging, intra-axonal volume fraction maps and axon diameter maps (μm) on inverted T2–weighted images.
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