Variance of estimated DTI-derived parameters via first-order perturbation methods

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-149

  Chang, Lin Ching ^a,b   Koay, Cheng Guan ^a   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a   Basser, Peter J ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; Error propagation; Perturbation; Uncertainty; Variance

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; TENSORS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ERROR PROPAGATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; PERTURBATION; UNCERTAINTY; VARIANCE;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SAMPLING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIANCE;

EID: 33846043073     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21111     Document Type: Article

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