DT-MRI denoising and neuronal fiber tracking

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-111

  McGraw, T ^a   Vemuri, B C ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Rao, M ^a   Mareci, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; DT MRI; DTI; Total variation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLOR; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA DISPLAY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 1842558520     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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