Assessing and minimizing the effects of noise and motion in clinical DTI at 3 T

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2641-2655

  Tijssen, Rob H N ^a,b,c   Jansen, Jacobus F A ^a,b   Backes, Walter H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical MRI; Diffusion tensor imaging; Gradient sampling schemes; Motion; Noise; Reproducibility; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650473707     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20695     Document Type: Article

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