A method for calibrating diffusion gradients in diffusion tensor imaging

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 984-993

  Wu, Yu Chien ^a,b,c   Alexander, Andrew L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Background gradient; Diffusion tensor imaging; Gradient calibration; Imaging gradient; Residual gradient

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DIFFUSION; ERRORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENSORS;

AMPLITUDE SCALING; BACKGROUND GRADIENT; CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; DIFFUSION GRADIENTS; GRADIENT CALIBRATION; GRADIENT ERRORS; IMAGING GRADIENT; ISOTROPICS; RESIDUAL GRADIENT; RETROSPECTIVE CORRECTIONS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP;

EID: 36649014528     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/rct.0b013e31805152fa     Document Type: Article

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