White matter fiber tractography via anisotropic diffusion simulation in the human brain

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1127-1137

  Kang, Ning ^a   Zhang, Jim ^a   Carlson, Eric S ^b   Gembris, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion simulation; Diffusion tensor MRI; Fiber tractography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 25144473974     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.852049     Document Type: Article

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