Clinical MR tractography: Past, present, and future

MedicaMundi

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Yamada, K ^a   Akazawa, K ^a   Yuen, S ^a   Nishimura, T ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE TRACTOGRAPHY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STROKE;

EID: 74249113154     PISSN: 00257664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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