The elliptical cone of uncertainty and its normalized measures in diffusion tensor imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 834-846

  Koay, Cheng Guan ^a   Nevo, Uri ^a   Chang, Lin Ching ^a,b   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a   Basser, Peter J ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b Catholic University of America ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cone of uncertainty; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Eigenvector dispersion; Normalized areal measure; normalized circumferential measure

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); EIGENVECTOR DISPERSION; NORMALIZED AREAL MEASURE; NORMALIZED CIRCUMFERENTIAL MEASURE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44449114653     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.915663     Document Type: Article

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