Toward a quantitative assessment of diffusion anisotropy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 893-906

  Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a   Basser, Peter J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropy; diffusion; magnetic resonance imaging; tensor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TENSION;

EID: 0029908076     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360612     Document Type: Article

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