Extremely efficient and deterministic approach to generating optimal ordering of diffusion MRI measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4795-4801

  Koay, Cheng Guan ^a   Hurley, Samuel A ^a   Meyerand, M Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

antipodal symmetry; diffusion MRI; diffusion MRI acquisition; gradient directions; multiple shell acquisition; ordered point set

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DETERMINISTIC APPROACH; DETERMINISTIC METHODS; DIFFUSION MRIS; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; GRADIENT DIRECTION; MULTIPLE SHELL ACQUISITION; POINT SET; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 79961048098     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3615163     Document Type: Article

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