http://www.appliedradiology.com RSS Feed on Applied Radiologyhttp://www.appliedradiology.com//Issues/2007/01/Articles/Clinical-impact-of-diffusion-tensor-imaging.aspxDiffusion magnetic resonance (MR) imaging became widely available for clinical use in the late 1980s; it revolutionized the MR imaging of patients with suspected brain infarction and had an enormous impact on the characterization of focal brain lesions. Recent advances in MR have enabled diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), offering new insights into the nature and integrity of ordered brain white matter (WM) pathways. Imaging brain anisotropy can yield useful information about WM integrity and exhibit pathology that is occult to conventional imaging techniques.Monday, 22 Jan 2007 15:15:34 GMT