Effects of signal-to-noise ratio on the accuracy and reproducibility of diffusion tensor imaging-derived fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, and principal eigenvector measurements at 1.5T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 756-767

  Farrell, Jonathan A D ^a,b   Landman, Bennett A ^b   Jones, Craig K ^a,b   Smith, Seth A ^a,b   Prince, Jerry L ^b,c   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b   Mori, Susumu ^a,b  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity; Precision; Principal eigenvector; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35248816901     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21053     Document Type: Article

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