An error analysis of white matter tractography methods: Synthetic diffusion tensor field simulations

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1140-1153

  Lazar, Mariana ^a,b,d   Alexander, Andrew L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142106289     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00277-5     Document Type: Article

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