Diffusion anisotropy measurement of brain white matter is affected by voxel size: Underestimation occurs in areas with crossing fibers

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1102-1106

  Oouchi, H ^a   Yamada, Kei ^a,c   Sakai, K ^b   Kizu, O ^a   Kubota, T ^a   Ito, H ^a   Nishimura, T ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; VOLUNTEER; VOXEL SIZE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34250850723     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0488     Document Type: Article

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