Dependence of brain DTI maps of fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity on the number of diffusion weighting directions

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 176-190

  Giannelli, Marco ^a   Cosottini, Mirco ^a,b   Michelassi, Maria Chiara ^a   Lazzarotti, Guido ^a   Belmonte, Gina ^b   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^b   Lazzeri, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mean diffusivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954262081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i1.2927     Document Type: Article

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