Principal eigenvector field segmentation for reproducible diffusion tensor tractography of white matter structures

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1088-1100

  Rathore, Ram K S ^a   Gupta, Rakesh K ^b   Agarwal, Shruti ^a   Trivedi, Richa ^b,c   Tripathi, Rajendra P ^c   Awasthi, Rishi ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Reproducibility; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICOPONTINE TRACT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; PRINCIPAL EIGENVECTOR FIELD SEGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGION OF INTEREST; REPRODUCIBILITY; STABLE FIBER MASS; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; SUPERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; TAPETUM; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80052636588     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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