anisotropy

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Diffusional anisotropy, a marker of white matter tract integrity, was reduced in the white matter of older subjects and fell linearly with increasing age in the older group.

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  1. The quality of being anisotropic.
  2. In embryology, the condition of having the axes predetermined: applied to certain differentiated animal ova: opposed to isotropy.

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  • He didn't think so either, she could tell, but completeness required mentioning the possibility The second is that the anisotropy is caused by advanced wave Mota crystallization He frowned. —  Analog, July-August 2006
  • It is shown that besides anisotropy, finite reaction times play an important role in correctly describing microscopic walking behavior. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • A theoretical treatment of the effects of chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) on the selective excitation in magic-angle spinning (MAS) experiments in solids is presented. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Using this framework, any uncertainty of interest related to the diffusion tensor elements or to the tensor-derived quantities such as eigenvalues, eigenvectors, trace, fractional anisotropy (FA), and relative anisotropy (RA) can be analytically expressed and derived from the noisy diffusion-weighted signals. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Hence, diffusion anisotropy is overestimated in general. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. from Greek ἂνισος, unequal, + -τροπία, from τρέπειν, turn.
 

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