Effects of image distortions originating from susceptibility variations and concomitant fields on diffusion MRI tractography results

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 275-288

  Irfanoglu, M Okan ^a,b   Walker, Lindsay ^a,b   Sarlls, Joelle ^c   Marenco, Stefano ^d   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Echo planar imaging; Fiber tractography; Image distortions; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN COMMISSURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE DISTORTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84859091395     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.054     Document Type: Article

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