DTI at long diffusion time improves fiber tracking

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 459-465

  Rane, Swati ^a,b   Nair, Govind ^b   Duong, Timothy Q ^c,d,e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross terms; Diffusion tensor imaging; Formalin fixation; Fractional anisotropy; Rhesus macaques; STEAM sequence; White matter tracking

Indexed keywords

CROSS-TERMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FORMALIN FIXATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; FORMALDEHYDE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPINNING (FIBERS); STEAM;

TENSORS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENTROPY; GRAY MATTER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARACENTRAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRECENTRAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENTROPY; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE NET; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE FIXATION;

MACACA MULATTA; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

EID: 77953504735     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1482     Document Type: Article

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