Quantitative evaluation of 10 tractography algorithms on a realistic diffusion MR phantom

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 220-234

  Fillard, Pierre ^a,b   Descoteaux, Maxime ^c   Goh, Alvina ^d   Gouttard, Sylvain ^e   Jeurissen, Ben ^f   Malcolm, James ^g   Ramirez Manzanares, Alonso ^h   Reisert, Marco ⁱ   Sakaie, Ken ^j   Tensaouti, Fatima ^k   Yo, Ting ^l   Mangin, Jean François ^b   Poupon, Cyril ^b  

^a INRIA SACLAY   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^j LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k INSERM   (France)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 79953066363     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.01.032     Document Type: Article

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