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Diffusion imaging of congenital brain malformations.

Mike Wahl1, Pratik Mukherjee

  • 1Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. mwahl@radiology.ucsf.edu

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
|September 26, 2009
PubMed
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Diffusion imaging, a magnetic resonance imaging technique, reveals brain structure by tracking water movement. It offers new insights into congenital brain malformations, even those missed by standard imaging.

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