A multiple streamline approach to high angular resolution diffusion tractography

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 989-996

  Chao, Yi Ping ^a   Chen, Jyh Horng ^a   Cho, Kuan Hung ^a   Yeh, Chun Hung ^b   Chou, Kun Hsien ^b   Lin, Ching Po ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

High angular resolution diffusion imaging; MRI; QBI; Tractography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DIFFUSION; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTORS; RESONANCE; TENSORS;

3D DIFFUSION; BRAIN STRUCTURES; CLINICAL STUDIES; CONTINUOUS TRACKING; DIFFUSION PROFILES; DIFFUSION TENSORS; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FIBER SYSTEMS; FIBER TRACTS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; HUMAN BRAINS; HUMAN MOTOR; MOTOR-CORTEX; MRI; QBI; TRACTOGRAPHY;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CELL DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FIBER; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MODIFIED FIBER ASSIGNMENT USING THE CONTINUOUS TRACKING; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 53049107056     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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