An empirical characterization of the quality of DTI data and the efficacy of dyadic sorting

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-132

  Yanasak, Nathan E ^a   Allison, Jerry D ^a   Hu, Tom C C ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Diffusion tensor; DTI; Dyadic sorting; MRI phantom; SNR

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 37349020933     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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