Statistical analysis of diffusion tensors in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 480, 2007, Pages 1085-1102

  Zhu, Hongtu ^a   Zhang, Heping ^b   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Peterson, Bradley S ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Eigenvalues; Eigenvectors; Principal direction; Random matrices; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349050275     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000581     Document Type: Article

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