Intersubject variability in the analysis of diffusion tensor images at the group level: fractional anisotropy mapping and fiber tracking techniques

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 324-334

  Müller, Hans Peter ^a   Unrath, Alexander ^a   Riecker, Axel ^a   Pinkhardt, Elmar H ^a   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Kassubek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tracking; Fractional anisotropy mapping; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE PROJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61649105782     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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