Diffusion tensor sharpening improves white matter tractography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Descoteaux, Maxime ^a   Lenglet, Christophe ^b   Deriche, Rachid ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral anatomy; Deconvolution; Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI); Fiber tractography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CEREBRAL ANATOMY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (ODF);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36248982659     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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