Diffusion tensor imaging at low SNR: nonmonotonic behaviors of tensor contrasts

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 790-800

  Landman, Bennett A ^a   Farrell, Jonathan A D ^a,b   Huang, Hao ^a   Prince, Jerry L ^a,c   Mori, Susumu ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; Low SNR; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability; Tensor estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 45849114741     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.01.034     Document Type: Article

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