Apparent Fibre Density: A novel measure for the analysis of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3976-3994

  Raffelt, David ^a,b   Tournier, J Donald ^c,d   Rose, Stephen ^b   Ridgway, Gerard R ^e   Henderson, Robert ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^b   Salvado, Olivier ^a   Connelly, Alan ^c,d  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Apparent fibre density; Diffusion MRI; Fibre orientation distribution; Motor neurone disease; Spherical deconvolution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; APPARENT FIBRE DENSITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857034696     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.045     Document Type: Article

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