Geometric analysis of the b-dependent effects of Rician signal noise on diffusion tensor imaging estimates and determining an optimal b value

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 777-788

  Taylor, Paul A ^a   Biswal, Bharat ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); MRI; Noise; Tensor estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARENCHYMA; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALED RELATIVE ANISOTROPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79959203470     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.02.031     Document Type: Article

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