A normal distribution for tensor-valued random variables: Applications to diffusion tensor MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 785-794

  Basser, Peter J ^a   Pajevic, Sinisa ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance; Distribution; Experimental design; Fourth order; Gaussian; Normal; Precision; Probability; Random variable; Second order; Strain energy; Tensor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STRAIN;

ELASTIC COEFFICIENTS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0043028196     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.815059     Document Type: Article

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