A quality assurance protocol for diffusion tensor imaging using the head phantom from American College of Radiology

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4415-4421

  Wang, Zhiyue J ^a,b   Seo, Youngseob ^a,b   Chia, Jonathan M ^c   Rollins, Nancy K ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; phantom; quality assurance; quality control

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; EDDY CURRENTS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; SCANNING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; MEASUREMENT REPRODUCIBILITY; PIXEL BASED APPROACH; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROTOCOLS; REGION OF INTEREST;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

EID: 79960212971     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3595111     Document Type: Article

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