Mean diffusivity, fractional anisotropy maps, and three-dimensional white-matter tractography by diffusion tensor imaging. Comparison between single-shot fast spin-echo and single-shot echo-planar sequences at 1.5 Tesla

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 830-834

  Hori, Masaaki ^a   Ishigame, Keiichi ^b   Shiraga, Nobuyuki ^a   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^b   Aoki, Shigeki ^c   Araki, Tsutomu ^b  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

EPI; MRI; SSFSE; Tensor; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL WHITE MATTER TRACTOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 41349087289     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0805-9     Document Type: Article

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