Variational multiple-tensor fitting of fiber-ambiguous diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging voxels

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1133-1144

  Pasternak, Ofer ^a   Assaf, Yaniv ^a,b   Intrator, Nathan ^a   Sochen, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crossing fibers; Diffusion tensor; Ill posed inverse problem; Partial volume; Variational model regularization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENERGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MODEL; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 51649123428     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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