Reproducibility of quantitative tractography methods applied to cerebral white matter

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 630-644

  Wakana, Setsu ^a,b   Caprihan, Arvind ^c   Panzenboeck, Martina M ^d   Fallon, James H ^d   Perry, Michele ^e   Gollub, Randy L ^f   Hua, Kegang ^a   Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Jiang, Hangyi ^a,b   Dubey, Prachi ^a   Blitz, Ari ^b   van Zijl, Peter ^a,b   Mori, Susumu ^a,b  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c New Mexico Resonance   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Reproducibility; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALAMUS;

EID: 34250158060     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.049     Document Type: Article

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