Theoretical analysis of the effects of noise on diffusion tensor imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1174-1188

  Anderson, Adam W ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Fiber tracking; Noise

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR; EIGENVALUE EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS; FIBER TRACKING; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NOISE; POWER SERIES SOLUTIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0035178887     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1315     Document Type: Article

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