Die Autoren sind Mitglieder des Fachbereiches Physik, Experimentalphysik 5 sowie der Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik I an der Universität Würzburg und des Forschungszentrums "Magnetic Resonance Bavaria" in Würzburg.
Im Abstract heißt es:
It had been previously shown that an idealized version of the two-wave-vector extension of the NMR pulsed-field-gradient spin echo diffusion experiment can be used to determine the apparent radius of geometries with restricted diffusion. In the present work, the feasibility of the experiment was demonstrated in an NMR imaging experiment, in which the apparent radius of axons in white matter tissue was determined. Moreover, numerical simulations have been carried out to determine the reliability of the results. For small diffusion times, the radius is systematically underestimated. Larger gradient area, finite length gradient pulses, and a statistical distribution of radii within a voxel all have a minor influence on the estimated radius.
Erschienen ist der Artikel im April 2009 in der Zeitschrift Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Volume 61, Issue 4, Seiten 1001–1006).
