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Magnetic resonance diffusion imaging was performed on 12 patients presenting with symptoms of acute ischaemic stroke (1-6 days post-ictus). Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and diffusion anisotropy measurements were obtained from ischaemic and contralateral normal regions. ADC measurements were decreased by around 40% in ischaemic regions, indicated by an average stroke to normal ratio of 0.56 ± 0.04(p < 0.0001). The measured anisotropy was shown to be significantly increased in ischaemic regions, using both standard deviation and volume ratio anisotropy indices, which gave stroke to normal ratios of 1.78 ± 0.27(p = 0.003) and 0.87 ± 0.05(p = 0.005) respectively. The effects of gradient interactions, image registration, noise contamination and rotational variance and their implications for the results obtained in this study are discussed. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Armitage, P.A., Bastin, M.E., Marshall, I. et al. Diffusion anisotropy measurements in ischaemic stroke of the human brain. MAGMA 6, 28–36 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02662509
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