Least squares for diffusion tensor estimation revisited: Propagation of uncertainty with Rician and non-Rician signals

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4032-4043

  Tristán Vega, Antonio ^a   Aja Fernández, Santiago ^b   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bias; Diffusion tensor; Least squares; Non central Chi; Rician

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOG RICIAN NOISE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84857029720     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.074     Document Type: Article

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