Ke Li1, 2,
  Richard D. Dortch1, 2, Ha-Kyu Jeong1, 2,
  Amanda K.W. Buck1, 2, Theodore F. Towse, 23,
  Bruce M. Damon1, 2, Jane H. Park4
 1Institute
  of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States; 2Radiology
  and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United
  States; 3Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt
  University, Nashville, TN, United States; 4Molecular Physiology
  and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
DT-MRI indices from the normal human thigh muscles have particular significance because of the proximal-to-distal presentation of many neuromuscular disorders, causing the thigh muscles to be an early site of pathology. In this work, DT-MRI has been performed in healthy thigh muscles at 3.0 T in order to investigate the normal values obtained by, and the repeatability of, this technique.