Color schemes to represent the orientation of anisotropic tissues from diffusion tensor data: Application to white matter fiber tract mapping in the human brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 526-540

  Pajevic, Sinisa ^a   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Brain; Color; Diffusion; Human; MRI; Tensor; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; COLOR VISION; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; DISPLAY HARDWARE; HEURISTIC SCHEMES; HUMAN; HUMAN COLOR VISION; WHITE MATTER; WHITE-MATTER FIBER TRACTS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; COLOR; COLOR VISION; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032882168     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199909)42:3<526::AID-MRM15>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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