A simplified method to measure the diffusion tensor from seven MR images

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 928-934

  Basser, Peter J ^a,c   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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

^c NCRR

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Diffusion; MRI; Tensor

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA HANDLING; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTING; IMAGING PARAMETERS; LATTICE ANISOTROPY; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSIONS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAT; DIFFUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031809020     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910390610     Document Type: Article

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