Correction of susceptibility-induced distortion in Diffusion Tensor Imaging with a moment-based phase unwrapping method

International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-149

  Zhao, Qun ^a   Langley, Jason ^a   Faraco, Carlos ^a,b   Stephen Miller, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; distortion correction; DTI; phase unwrapping; susceptibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350684640     PISSN: 17562104     EISSN: 17562112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJFIPM.2009.027588     Document Type: Article

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