Reconstruction of the human visual system based on DTI fiber tracking

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 886-893

  Staempfli, Philipp ^a,b,c   Rienmueller, Anna ^a   Reischauer, Carolin ^a   Valavanis, Anton ^b   Boesiger, Peter ^a   Kollias, Spyridon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor tractography; DTI; Fast marching; Resolving fiber crossing; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 35148817596     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21098     Document Type: Article

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