Quantitative assessment of DTI-based muscle fiber tracking and optimal tracking parameters

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 467-472

  Heemskerk, Anneriet M ^a,b,f   Sinha, Tuhin K ^a,b   Wilson, Kevin J ^a   Ding, Zhaohua ^a,b,c,d   Damon, Bruce M ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Institute of Imaging Science   (United States)

^b Departments of Radiology and Radiological Sciences   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d Program in Chemical and Physical Biology   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human mri; Muscle architecture; Tractography

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS;

FIBER TRACKING; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; MUSCLE ARCHITECTURES; OPTIMAL TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR; TRACTOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 60549089070     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21819     Document Type: Article

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