Estimating non-Gaussian diffusion model parameters in the presence of physiological noise and Rician signal bias

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-189

  Kristoffersen, Anders ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

averaged magnitude data; multiexponential diffusion; non Gaussian diffusion; parameter estimation; physiological noise; Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 83755229561     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22826     Document Type: Article

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