Unified Bundling and Registration of Brain White Matter Fibers

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1399-1411

  Xu, Qing ^a   Anderson, Adam W ^a   Gore, John C ^a   Ding, Zhaohua ^b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; diffusion tensor imaging; registration; white matter fibers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77950277389     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2016337     Document Type: Article

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