The effect of local perturbation fields on human DTI: Characterisation, measurement and correction

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 562-570

  Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^a   Nagy, Zoltan ^a   Möller, Harald E ^b   Symms, Mark R ^a   Carmichael, David W ^a,c,d   Josephs, Oliver ^a   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted images; Eddy current correction; Local perturbation fields; Mean diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HEAD POSITION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LOCAL PERTURBATION FIELD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE;

EID: 84856085520     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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