Orientationally invariant indices of axon diameter and density from diffusion MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1374-1389

  Alexander, Daniel C ^a   Hubbard, Penny L ^b   Hall, Matt G ^a   Moore, Elizabeth A ^c   Ptito, Maurice ^d   Parker, Geoff J M ^b   Dyrby, Tim B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Active imaging; Axon diameter; Diffusion MRI; Fibre density; Microstructure; White matter

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954959460     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.043     Document Type: Article

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