Comparing isotropic and anisotropic smoothing for voxel-based DTI analyses: A simulation study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 98-114

  Van Hecke, Wim ^a,b   Leemans, Alexander ^c,d   De Backer, Steve ^a   Jeurissen, Ben ^a   Parizel, Paul M ^b   Sijbers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Smoothing; Voxel based analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; KERNEL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 74049156470     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20848     Document Type: Article

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