Novel diffusion anisotropy indices: An evaluation

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 211-217

  Wang, Jiun Jie ^a,b   Chao, Tsi Chian ^a   Wai, Yau Yau ^b   Hsu, Yuanyu ^a,c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diffusion ansiotropy; Diffusion deviation tensor; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Relative anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745728318     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20616     Document Type: Article

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