Novel multisection design of anisotropic diffusion phantoms

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 518-526

  Farrher, Ezequiel ^a   Kaffanke, Joachim ^a,c   Celik, A Avdo ^a   Stöcker, Tony ^a   Grinberg, Farida ^a   Shah, N Jon ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MR Transfer eK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion kurtosis imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber phantom; High angular resolution diffusion imaging; Q ball imaging; Spherical harmonic deconvolution; Stimulated echo

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE;

EID: 84859648586     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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