A tractography comparison between turboprop and spin-echo echo-planar diffusion tensor imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1451-1462

  Gui, Minzhi ^a   Peng, Huiling ^a   Carew, John D ^b   Lesniak, MacIej S ^c   Arfanakis, Konstantinos ^a,c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; MRI; PROPELLER; Susceptibility; Tractography; Turboprop

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; TURBOPROP; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55349091322     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.05.066     Document Type: Article

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