The effect of gradient sampling schemes on diffusion metrics derived from probabilistic analysis and tract-based spatial statistics

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 402-412

  Hope, Tuva ^a,b   Westlye, Lars Tjelta ^c   Bjørnerud, Atle ^a,c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crossing fibers; DTI; FA; Gradient encoding optimization; MD; SNR; Tract based spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION GRADIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; VOXEL WISE PROBABILITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84857115898     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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