Modified fast marching tractography algorithm and its ability to detect fibre crossing

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 319-322

  Dargi, F ^b,c   Oghabian, M A ^a,b,c   Ahmadian, A ^a,b,c   Zadeh, H Soltanian ^a,b,d   Zarei, M ^d,e,f   Boroomand, A ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive weighted factor; Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI); FA Weighted Fast Marching (FAW FM); Fast Marching (FM); Fibre crossing; Fibre tractography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WEIGHTED FACTOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FA WEIGHTED FAST MARCHING (FAW-FM); FAST MARCHING (FM); FIBER CROSSING; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; TENSORS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS;

EID: 57649198732     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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