Optimal acquisition orders of diffusion-weighted MRI measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1051-1058

  Cook, Philip A ^a   Symms, Mark ^b   Boulby, Philip A ^b   Alexander, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Diffusion tensor; Gradient directions; Neuroimaging; Patient compliance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34247884377     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20905     Document Type: Article

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