A model for noise effects on fibre tract trajectories in diffusion tensor imaging: Theory and simulations

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Boguñá, Marián ^a,b   Pajevic, Sinisa ^a   Basser, Peter J ^c   Weiss, George H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER TRACT TRAJECTORIES; NOISE EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFUSION; NEUROLOGY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TENSORS; TRAJECTORIES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 23244441446     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/024     Document Type: Article

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