Diffusion tractography of post-mortem human brains: Optimization and comparison of spin echo and steady-state free precession techniques

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2284-2297

  Miller, Karla L ^a   McNab, Jennifer A ^b   Jbabdi, Saad ^a   Douaud, Gwenaëlle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; DTI; Post mortem; Steady state free precession; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CADAVER; CINGULUM BUNDLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED SPIN ECHO; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE TRACT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TISSUE SECTION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BUFFERS; CADAVER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84855493072     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.054     Document Type: Article

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