Development and initial evaluation of 7-T q-ball imaging of the human brain

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-180

  Mukherjee, Pratik ^a   Hess, Christopher P ^a   Xu, Duan ^a   Han, Eric T ^b   Kelley, Douglas A ^b   Vigneron, Daniel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fiber tractography; High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI); High field MR imaging; q ball imaging (QBI); White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 38349188424     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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