A general framework for experiment design in diffusion MRI and its application in measuring direct tissue-microstructure features

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 439-448

  Alexander, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active imaging; Axon density; Axon diameter; Cramer Rao lower bound; Diffusion MRI; Experiment design; Microstructure; Quantitative MRI; Rician noise

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DIFFUSION; MICROSTRUCTURE; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACTIVE IMAGING; AXON DIAMETERS; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DIFFUSION MRIS; EXPERIMENT DESIGN; QUANTITATIVE MRIS; RICIAN NOISE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 49049091152     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21646     Document Type: Article

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