Sparse and optimal acquisition design for diffusion MRI and beyond

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2499-2511

  Koay, Cheng Guan ^a   Özarslan, Evren ^b,c   Johnson, Kevin M ^a   Meyerand, M Elizabeth ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

3D radial MRI; combinatorial optimization; diffusion MRI; moderately greedy combinatorial search; multiple shell acquisition; optimal acquisition; sparse design

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NUMBER THEORY; PIPELINES; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SIMULATED ANNEALING;

COMBINATORIAL SEARCH; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION MRIS; DIFFUSION SPECTRUM IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; MULTIPLE-SHELL ACQUISITION; OPTIMAL ACQUISITION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84861619830     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3700166     Document Type: Article

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