Mathematical framework for simulating diffusion tensor MR neural fiber bundles

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 944-953

  Leemans, Alexander ^a   Sijbers, J ^a   Verhoye, M ^a   Van Der Linden, A ^a   Van Dyck, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Diffusion tensor MRI; Fiber tracking; Model evaluation; Simulated phantom; Synthetic data

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHANTOMS; TENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION);

DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; FIBER TRACKING; MODEL EVALUATION; SIMULATED PHANTOM; SYNTHETIC DATA;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 16444365770     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20418     Document Type: Article

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