Statistical assessment of non-Gaussian diffusion models

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1639-1648

  Kristoffersen, Anders ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

goodness of fit; multiexponential diffusion; non Gaussian diffusion; physiological noise; Rice distribution; statistical inference

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PHYSIOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

GOODNESS OF FIT; MULTIEXPONENTIAL DIFFUSIONS; NON-GAUSSIAN DIFFUSIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE; RICE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

DIFFUSION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 81355161644     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22960     Document Type: Article

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