Deterministic and probabilistic tractography based on complex fibre orientation distributions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-286

  Descoteaux, Maxime ^a   Deriche, Rachid ^b   Knösche, Thomas R ^c   Anwander, Alfred ^c  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomical connectivity; Crossing fibres; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fibre tractography; G ball imaging (QBI); High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI); Orientation distribution function (ODF); Spherical deconvolution (SD)

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONVOLUTION; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FIBERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHERES;

ANATOMICAL CONNECTIVITY; CROSSING FIBRES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FIBRE TRACTOGRAPHY; G-BALL IMAGING (QBI); HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING (HARDI); ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (ODF); SPHERICAL DECONVOLUTION (SD);

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 59449086531     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2004424     Document Type: Article

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