Diffusion tensor encoding schemes optimized for white matter fibers with selected orientations

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-153

  Peng, Huiling ^a   Arfanakis, Konstantinos ^a,b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition scheme; DTI; Fiber orientation; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE FIBERS;

EID: 33846553060     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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