A diffusion tensor imaging tractography algorithm based on navierstokes fluid mechanics

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-360

  Hageman, Nathan S ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Narr, Katherine L ^a   Shattuck, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fluid mechanics; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS;

ARTIFICIAL FLUIDS; COLOR IMAGES; DATA SETS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); DIFFUSION TENSORS; FIBER GEOMETRIES; FLUID VELOCITY VECTORS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IMAGE VOLUMES; IN DIFFUSIONS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NAVIER-STOKES FLUIDS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MECHANICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 61449122192     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2004403     Document Type: Article

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