Fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity measurements on normal human brain: Comparison between low- and high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging sequences

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 187-192

  Papanikolaou, Nickolas ^a   Karampekios, Spyros ^a   Papadaki, Efrosyni ^a   Malamas, Menelaos ^b   Maris, Thomas ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b 251 General Air Force Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity; Normal brain; Voxel based statistics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 30844462558     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2833-7     Document Type: Article

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