Recovering almost everything diffusion could reveal

Abstract

Diffusion magnetic resonance has been employed for determining the distribution of net displacements (ensemble average propagator), moments and correlations of net displacements, and the steady-state distribution of magnetized particles. All such quantities are accessible via the diffusion propagator, which characterizes the diffusion process fully. Here, a novel diffusion encoding and data analysis framework is introduced with which the diffusion propagator can be recovered.