Diffusion tensor imaging of the brain: Effects of distortion correction with correspondence to numbers of encoding directions

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 481-487

  Yoshikawa, Takeharu ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^a   Abe, Osamu ^a   Hayashi, Naoto ^a   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^a   Masumoto, Tomohiko ^a   Mori, Harushi ^a   Satake, Yoshiroh ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Distortion correction; Echo planar imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISPERSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 55949109377     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-008-0262-7     Document Type: Article

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