MRI Technologistover 8 years ago

IVIM imaging is a concept and a method initially introduced and developed by Le Bihan et al. to quantitatively assess all the microscopic translational motions that could contribute to the signal acquired with diffusion MRI. In biological tissue, these motions essentially are molecular diffusion of water and microcirculation of blood in the capillary network (perfusion). The concept introduced by D. Le Bihan is that water flowing in randomly oriented capillaries (at the voxel level) mimics a random walk (pseudodiffusion) (figure).