Anatomically-constrained tractography: Improved diffusion MRI streamlines tractography through effective use of anatomical information

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1924-1938

  Smith, Robert E ^a,b   Tournier, Jacques Donald ^a,b   Calamante, Fernando ^a,b   Connelly, Alan ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Fibre tracking; Magnetic resonance imaging; Streamlines; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED TRACTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84863535517     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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