Morphological changes caused by cellular death alter the movement of water, which diffusion MRI has the potential to detect. Cellular death can be easily isolated with an in vitro model. I find that the ADC, kurtosis and the ball-sphere model showed significant changes between the control and the treated groups. Likely sources of parameter changes are the increased membrane permeability, organelle/macromolecule breakdown and differences in cellular size.
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