Accurate brain volumetry with diffusion-weighted spin-echo single-shot echo-planar-imaging and dual-clustering segmentation: Comparison with volumetry-validated quantitative magnetic resonance imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1183-1190

  Watanabe, Memi ^a   Sakai, Osamu ^a   Norbash, Alexander M ^a   Jara, Hernán ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion weighted spin echo single shot echo planar imaging; Quantitative MRI; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIFFUSION; FILLING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPIN POLARIZATION; TISSUE;

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITIES; QUANTITATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE MRIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPIN ECHO; VOLUMETRY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77749246655     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3310384     Document Type: Article

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