DWI of the brain: postmortal DWI of the brain in comparison with in vivo data.

Abstract

Changes in water diffusion can be quantified by diffusion-weighted MR imaging. However, there are only few reports about changes in post mortem brain. The aim of this study was to investigate the temporal pattern of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in the brain after death, to compare the values to in vivo brain and to assess the value of ex vivo DWI as a forensic tool.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number1-3
ISSN0379-0738
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22445270