Visualization and Analysis of White Matter Structural Asymmetry in Diffusion Tensor MRI Data

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 140-147

  Zhang, Song ^a   Bastin, Mark E ^b   Laidlaw, David H ^a   Sinha, Saurabh ^b   Armitage, Paul A ^b   Deisboeck, Thomas S ^c,d  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tensor; Tumor

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

DEGREE OF ASYMMETRY; DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPHERICAL DIFFUSION; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0345742634     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10673     Document Type: Article

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