Advanced MR diffusion characterization of neural tissue using directional diffusion kurtosis analysis

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3941-3944

  Hui, Edward S ^a   Cheung, Matthew M ^a   Qi, Liqun ^b   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

And orthogonal transformation; Diffusion kurtosis tensor; Directional kurtosis; Restricted diffusion

Indexed keywords

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; TENSORS; TISSUE;

DIFFUSION DIRECTION; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS TENSORS; DIRECTIONAL DIFFUSION; DIRECTIONAL KURTOSIS; ORDERING DIFFUSION; ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RESTRICTED DIFFUSION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 61849164596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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