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2020 , Vol. 26 >Issue 7: 766 - 770

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1006-9771.2020.07.005

Advance in Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Peripheral Nerve Injury (review)

  • Lu YIN ,
  • Jun-tao YAN ,
  • Xiao CHEN ,
  • Dan-dan WU
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  • Tuina Department, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200437, China

Received date: 2019-07-22

  Revised date: 2019-10-31

  Online published: 2020-07-24

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth)(81603713)

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Abstract

Diffusion tensor imaging is a magnetic resonance imaging technology, based on the diffusion motion of water molecules, to obtain anisotropy informations of different tissues, which is used for early identification, accurate localization and grading in various fields of peripheral nerve injury, such as peripheral nerve injury repair, micro-lesion recognition and neuro-tumor. However, since diffusion tensor imaging is still at the early stage of clinical research, and the measurements are influenced by various factors such as technical settings and sequence specifications, the standardization of clinical measurement protocols and the quantification of parameters remain to be further studied.

Key words： diffusion tensor imaging; peripheral nerve injury; review

Cite this article

Lu YIN , Jun-tao YAN , Xiao CHEN , Dan-dan WU . Advance in Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Peripheral Nerve Injury (review)[J]. Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice, 2020 , 26(7) : 766 -770 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-9771.2020.07.005

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