Effects of image noise in muscle diffusion tensor (DT)-MRI assessed using numerical simulations

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 934-944

  Damon, Bruce M ^a,b,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Diffusion; DTI; Fiber tracking; Noise; SNR; Tensor

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTING; FIBER TRACKING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; INTERMEDIATE DEGREE; MUSCLE ARCHITECTURES; NOISE; REGIONS OF INTEREST;

MUSCLE;

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUSCLE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE MASS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 53549121202     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21707     Document Type: Article

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