Assessing fiber tracking accuracy via diffusion tensor software models

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Barbieri, Sebastiano ^a   Klein, Jan ^a   Nimsky, Christopher ^b   Hahn, Horst K ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Brain; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fiber Tracking; Noise; Safety Margin; Software Model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER TRACKING; NOISE; SAFETY MARGIN; SOFTWARE MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TENSORS; TISSUE; TRACKING (POSITION);

FIBERS;

EID: 79751470455     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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