Maximum a posteriori estimation of diffusion tensor parameters using a Rician noise model: Why, how and but

NeuroImage

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1340-1356

  Andersson, Jesper L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55549130452     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.05.053     Document Type: Article

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