White matter tractography by anisotropic wavefront evolution and diffusion tensor imaging

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 427-440

  Jackowski, Marcel ^a   Kao, Chiu Yen ^c   Qiu, Maolin ^a   Constable, R Todd ^a,b   Staib, Lawrence H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Image analysis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TISSUE; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

WATER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; WATER TRANSPORT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 23844488006     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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