Looking for the optimal DTI acquisition scheme given a maximum scan time: are more b-values a waste of time?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-175

  Correia, Marta Morgado ^a   Carpenter, Thomas A ^a   Williams, Guy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Apparent diffusion coefficient; DTI acquisiton scheme; Fibre orientation; Multiple b values; Noise

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59249105806     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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