Direct quantitative comparison between cross-relaxation imaging and diffusion tensor imaging of the human brain at 3.0 T

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1568-1578

  Underhill, Hunter R ^a,b   Yuan, Chun ^a   Yarnykh, Vasily L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON; WATER;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67651064318     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.075     Document Type: Article

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