Characterizing fiber directional uncertainty in diffusion tensor MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1408-1421

  Jeong, Ha Kyu ^a,b   Anderson, Adam W ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone of uncertainty; Diffusion tensor MRI; Fiber tracking; Perturbation theory; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TENSORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; CONE OF UNCERTAINTIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; FIBER TRACKING; MEASUREMENT CONDITIONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; PRINCIPAL EIGEN-VECTOR; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 57149090087     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21734     Document Type: Article

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