An ex vivo imaging pipeline for producing high-quality and high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging datasets

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 544-563

  Dyrby, Tim B ^a,b,c   Baaré, William F C ^a,d   Alexander, Daniel C ^e   Jelsing, Jacob ^f,g   Garde, Ellen ^a   Søgaard, Lise V ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Gubra ^*  (Denmark)

^g BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cortical layers; Crossing fibers; Diffusion MRI; Diffusion tensor imaging; Hippocampus; Tractography; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 79952428963     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21043     Document Type: Article

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