IPAG DIJC - Diffusion Imaging Journal Club (2005)
The Diffusion Imaging Journal Club (DIJC) consists of group discussions as well as invited talks in MR Diffusion Imaging. It attempts to encompass several aspects of this emerging modality, including acquisition, processing, visualization and applications. We meet every other week for about ~1 hour to discuss different papers in the field. During each meeting, we discuss one or two papers at a time. Occasionally we will also have talks given by investigators or experts in the field. Paper references will be posted on this web page before the meetings. Attendees are welcome to suggest papers they are interested in discussing. The purpose of this journal club is to keep track of this rapid-evolving imaging technique, and to contribute by sparking new ideas and fostering new collaborations.	For further information, please contact:     Marcel Jackowski     e-mail: mjack@noodle.med.yale.edu     DIJC Venue:         Diagnostic Radiology Conference Room         333 Brady Memorial Laboratory     Thursdays, 1PM (see schedule below)

Schedule

February 10

    Parallel Diffusion Imaging

• T. Jaermann, G. Crelier, K. P. Pruessmann, X. Golay, T. Netsch, A.M.C. van Muiswinkel et. al. "SENSE-DTI at 3T", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 51:230-236, 2004.
  

• M. Blaimer, F. Breuer, M. Mueller, R. M. Heidemann, M. A. Griswold, and P. M. Jakob. "SMASH, SENSE, PILS, GRAPPA: How to Choose the Optimal Method", Top. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 15, no. 4, August 2004.

• O. Dietrich, K. Nikolaou, B. J. Wintersperger, W. Flatz, M. Nittka, R. Petsch, B. Keifer and S. O. Schoenberg, "iPAT: Applications for Fast and Cardiovascular MR Imaging", Electromedica vol. 70, no. 2, 2002.

March 3

    Cardiac Diffusion Imaging

• J. C. Walker, J. M. Guccione, Y. Jian, P. Zhang, A. W. Wallace, E. W. Hsu, and M. B. Ratcliffe. "Helical myofiber orientation after myocardial infarction and left ventricular surgical restoration in sheep", J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 129 (2), 382-390, 2005.

March 17

    High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

• L. R. Frank. "Characterization of Anisotropy in High Angular Resolution Diffusion-Weighted MRI", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 47:1083-1099, 2002.

• D. S. Tuch, T. G. Reese, M. R. Wiegell, N. Makris, J. W. Belliveau and V. J. Wedeen. "High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging Reveals Intravoxel White Matter Fiber Heterogeneity", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 48:577-582, 2002.
  

March 31

Generalized Diffusion Tensor Imaging (GDTI)

• C. Liu, R. Bammer, B. Acar and M. E. Moseley. "Characterizing Non-Gaussian Diffusion by Using Generalized Diffusion Tensors", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 51:924-937, 2004.

• E. Ozarslan and R. H. Mareci."Generalized Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Analytical Relationships Between Diffusion Tensor Imaging and High Resolution Diffusion Imaging", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 50:955-965, 2003.

April 21

Brain Tumors and Diffusion Imaging

• B. A. Moffat, T. L. Chenevert, T. S. Lawrence, C. R. Meyer, T. D. Johnson, Q. Dong, C. Tsien, S. Mukherji, D. J. Quint, S. S. Gebarski, P. L. Robertson, L. R. Junck, A. Rehemtulla and B. D. Ross. "Functional diffusion map: A noninvasive MRI biomarker for early stratification of clinical brain tumor response", PNAS, vol. 102, no. 15, 5524-5529, April 2005.

May 5

Generalized Diffusion Measures

• E. Ozarslan, B. C. Vemuri and T. H. Mareci. "Generalized Scalar Measures for Diffusion MRI Using Trace, Variance, and Entropy", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 53:866-876, 2005.

June 2

Characterizing Hindered and Restricted Water Diffusion

• Y. Assaf, R. Z. Freidlin, G. K. Rohde and P. J. Basser. "New Modeling and Experimental Framework to Characterize Hindered and Restricted Water Diffusion in Brain White Matter", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:965-978, 2004.

General Reading

• P. J. Basser, J. Matiello and D. LeBihan, “Estimation of the Effective Self-Diffusion from NMR Spin Echo”, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series B, 103, 1994.

• P. J. Basser and C. Pierpaoli, “Microstructural and Physiological Features of Tissues Elucidated by Quantitative-Diffusion-Tensor MRI”, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series B, 111, 1996.

• J. J. Neil, “Measurement of Water Motion (Apparent Diffusion) in Biological Systems”, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, v. 9(6), 1997.

• W. S. Price, "Pulsed-Field Gradient Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Tool for Studying Translational Diffusion: Part 1. Basic Theory", Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, v. 9:5, 1997.

• W. S. Price, "Pulsed-Field Gradient Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Tool for Studying Translational Diffusion: Part 2. Experimental Aspects", Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, v. 10:4, 1998.

• D. Le Bihan, J. F. Mangin, C. Poupon, et al. "Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Concepts and Applications", Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, v.13, 2001.

• D. Le Bihan and P. Van Zijl, "From the diffusion coefficient to the diffusion tensor", NMR in Biomedicine, v. 15, 2002.

• P. Basser, D. Jones, "Diffusion-tensor MRI: theory, experimental design and data analysis - a technical review", NMR in Biomedicine, v. 15, 2002.

• D. Tuch, “Diffusion MRI of Complex Tissue Structure”, Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, 2002.

Past Meetings

• DIJC 2004
  

Last modified: 05/31/2005.