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practice, however, we have observed that the diusion model,

i.e., r

2

() = 6D

b

, ts the autocorrelation curves rather well

over a broad range of tissue types (see Figure 10.3), ranging from

rat brain (Cheung et al. 2001, Zhou et al. 2006) and mouse tumor

(Menon et al. 2003, Yu et al. 2005b), to piglet brain (Zhou et al.

2009), adult human skeletal muscle (Yu et al. 2005a, Shang et al.

2009), adult human tumors (Sunar et al. 2006, Zhou et al. 2007),

premature brain (Buckley et al. 2009, Roche-Labarbe etal. 2010),

and adult brain (Durduran et al. 2004b, Li et al. 2005, 2008,

Durduran et al. 2009b).