Quantification of the shape of fiber tracts

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 894-903

  Batchelor, P G ^a   Calamante, F ^b   Tournier, J D ^b   Atkinson, D ^a   Hill, D L G ^a   Connelly, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curvature; Fiber tracking; Fourier descriptor; Link; Principal component analysis; Torsion

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; CURVATURE; FIBER TRACKING; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; GEOMETRIC INVARIANT; LINK; POINT CORRESPONDENCE;

CLINICAL RESEARCH;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBELLUM PEDUNCLE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 33645759428     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20858     Document Type: Article

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