White matter fiber tracking method by vector interpolation with diffusion tensor imaging data in human brain

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 5786-5789

  Zhao, Xin ^a   Wang, Mingshi ^a   Gao, Wei ^a   Liu, Haiying ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain white matter; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fiber tracking; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

BRAIN WHITE MATTER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FIBER TRACKING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY (FA);

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 33846902909     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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