Comparison of gradient encoding schemes for diffusion-tensor MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 769-780

  Hasan, Khader M ^a   Parker, Dennis L ^b   Alexander, Andrew L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Encoding optimization; Heuristic polyhedra; Icosahedron; Numerically optimized polyhedra; Regular polyhedra

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0035038227     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1107     Document Type: Article

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