Benjamin M. Ellingson1,2, Mark G. Malkin2,3,
Scott D. Rand1,2, Jennifer M. Connelly2,3, Carolyn
Quincey3, Pete S. LaViolette2,4, Devyani P. Bedakar1,2,
Kathleen M. Schmainda1,2
1Dept. of Radiology, Medical College of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States; 2Translational Brain
Tumor Program, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States; 3Dept.
of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,
United States; 4Dept. of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI, United States
The
purpose of the current study was to comprehensively validate the assumptions
made in human functional diffusion map (fDM) analyses and provide a
biological and clinical basis for thresholds used in fDM tissue
classification.