Texture anisotropy of the brain's white matter as revealed by anatomical MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 678-685

  Kovalev, Vassili ^a   Kruggel, Frithjof ^b  

^a UNITED INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Anisotropy; Gender; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Texture; White matter (WM)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGE; GENDER; PATHOLOGICAL AGING; WHITE MATTER (WM);

BRAIN;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34247638143     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.895481     Document Type: Article

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