Distortion correction and robust tensor estimation for MR diffusion imaging

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 191-198

  Mangin, J F ^a,c   Poupon, C ^a,b,c,d   Clark, C ^a,c   Le Bihan, D ^a,c   Bloch, I ^b,c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Inst Federatif de Rech 49   (France)

^d GE Medical Systems   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Distortion; Registration; Robust; Tensor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOSENSITIZATION; STANDARD;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0036754787     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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