Abstract #4404

Test-retest reliability of Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) of the brain in healthy volunteers.

Ernst Christiaanse^1,2, Alexander Leemans², Patrik Wyss¹, and Alberto de Luca²

¹Department of Radiology, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Nottwil, Switzerland, ²Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

It is essential for longitudinal studies to validate the reproducibility of the applied methods. Therefore, we assessed the test-retest reliability of diffusion kurtosis imaging of the brain in 10 healthy participants and showed a good reproducibility with some variation in different white matter regions.

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