Feature-based interpolation of diffusion tensor fields and application to human cardiac DT-MRI

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 459-481

  Yang, Feng ^a   Zhu, Yue Min ^a   Magnin, Isabelle E ^a   Luo, Jian Hua ^b   Croisille, Pierre ^a   Kingsley, Peter B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; Euler angle; Quaternion; Tensor interpolation

Indexed keywords

CHOLESKY; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EIGENVALUES; EUCLIDEAN; EULER ANGLE; EULER ANGLES; FEATURE-BASED; FIBER CROSSINGS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN HEART; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LOG-EUCLIDEAN; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MONOTONICITY; QUATERNION; TENSOR COMPONENTS; TENSOR FIELDS; TENSOR ORIENTATION;

DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEART; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

TENSORS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856218640     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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