Boosting the sampling efficiency of q-ball imaging using multiple wavevector fusion

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 289-296

  Khachaturian, Mark H ^a,b,c   Wisco, Jonathan J ^a   Tuch, David S ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Diffusion tensor imaging; High angular resolution diffusion imaging; Image fusion; q ball imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENCY; IMAGE FUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIFFUSION MRIS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; INTENSIVE SAMPLING; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; Q-BALL IMAGING; SAMPLING EFFICIENCY;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; Q BALL IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; THEORY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33846839594     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21090     Document Type: Article

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