Diffusion tensor fiber tractography of the olfactory tract

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 289-292

  Skorpil, Mikael ^a   Rolheiser, Tyler ^b   Robertson, Harold ^b   Sundin, Anders ^a   Svenningsson, Per ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cranial nerve; Diffusion; Fiber tractography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Olfactory; Tensor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79451470675     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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