Partial volume estimation and segmentation of brain tissue based on diffusion tensor MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1482-1490

  Kumazawa, Seiji ^a   Yoshiura, Takashi ^a   Honda, Hiroshi ^a   Toyofuku, Fukai ^a   Higashida, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tissue segmentation; Cortical diffusivity; Digital DT MRI phantom; DT MRI; Partial volume effect

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHANTOMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TENSORS; TISSUE; VOLUME FRACTION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; BRAIN TISSUE SEGMENTATIONS; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; PARTIAL VOLUME AVERAGING; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77950581432     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3355886     Document Type: Article

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