Combinatorial fiber-tracking of the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 532-540

  Lifshits, Shlomi ^a,b   Tamir, Arie ^a   Assaf, Yaniv ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69249210955     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.086     Document Type: Article

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