Moderating registration misalignment in voxelwise comparisons of DTI data: A performance evaluation of skeleton projection

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-125

  Zalesky, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Image registration; Performance evaluation; Tract based spatial statistics; White matter

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649964712     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.027     Document Type: Article

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