Dependence of the fractional anisotropy in cervical spine from the number of diffusion gradients, repeated acquisition and voxel size

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-76

  Santarelli, Xenja ^a   Garbin, Gabriele ^a,b   Ukmar, Maja ^c   Longo, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion; DTI; Fractional anisotropy; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION GRADIENT DIRECTION NUMBER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VOXEL SIZE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 71049175835     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.046     Document Type: Article

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