Structure Tensor Informed Fiber Tractography (STIFT) by combining gradient echo MRI and diffusion weighted imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3941-3954

  Kleinnijenhuis, Michiel ^a,b   Barth, Markus ^a,c   Alexander, Daniel C ^d   van Cappellen van Walsum, Anne Marie ^b,e   Norris, David G ^a,c,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cingulum; Diffusion weighted imaging; Gradient echo imaging; Optic radiation; Structure tensor; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE TENSOR INFORMED FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84857032021     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.078     Document Type: Article

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