Flow-based fiber tracking with diffusion tensor and q-ball data: Validation and comparison to principal diffusion direction techniques

NeuroImage

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 725-736

  Campbell, Jennifer S W ^a,b   Siddiqi, Kaleem ^b   Rymar, Vladimir V ^a   Sadikot, Abbas F ^a   Pike, G Bruce ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tracking; Level set methods; Q ball imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HYBRID; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MANIKINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 24944552861     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.05.014     Document Type: Article

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