Track density imaging (TDI): Validation of super resolution property

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1259-1266

  Calamante, Fernando ^a,b   Tournier, Jacques Donald ^a,b   Heidemann, Robin M ^c   Anwander, Alfred ^c   Jackson, Graeme D ^a,b   Connelly, Alan ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Fibre tracking; Magnetic resonance imaging; Super resolution; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRACK DENSITY IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79955464166     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.059     Document Type: Article

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