A software tool to generate simulated white matter structures for the assessment of fibre-tracking algorithms

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1288-1300

  Close, Thomas G ^a,b,c   Tournier, Jacques Donald ^a,d   Calamante, Fernando ^a,d   Johnston, Leigh A ^a,b,c   Mareels, Iven ^b,c   Connelly, Alan ^a,d  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67651033331     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.03.077     Document Type: Article

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