Impact of an improved combination of signals from array coils in diffusion tensor imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1428-1436

  Gilbert, Guillaume ^b   Simard, Dany ^b   Beaudoin, Gilles ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combination of signals; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fractional anisotropy; Noise bias; Phased array coils

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI) PARAMETERS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY MAPS; NOISE BIAS; PHASED ARRAY COILS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIFFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35648934022     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.907699     Document Type: Article

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