Polynomial fitting of DT-MRI fiber tracts allows accurate estimation of muscle architectural parameters

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 589-600

  Damon, Bruce M ^a,b,c   Heemskerk, Anneriet M ^a,d   Ding, Zhaohua ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Diffusion tensor; Muscle architecture; Noise; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASPECT RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVE FITTING; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER CURVATURE; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MUSCLE FIBER TRACKING; POLYNOMIAL FITTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VOXEL GEOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84860477766     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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