Analysis and generalized correction of the effect of spatial gradient field distortions in diffusion-weighted imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 560-569

  Bammer, Roland ^a   Markl, M ^a   Barnett, A ^b   Acar, B ^a   Alley, M T ^a   Pelc, N J ^a   Glover, G H ^a   Moseley, M E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data correction; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Fiber tracking; Magnetic field gradients; MRI

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERRORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING; TENSORS;

DATA CORRECTIONS; DIFFUSION EXPERIMENTS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBER TRACKING; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; RETROSPECTIVE CORRECTIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONIC EXPANSIONS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ERROR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042839767     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10545     Document Type: Article

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