Six is enough? Comparison of diffusion parameters measured using six or more diffusion-encoding gradient directions with deterministic tractography

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 474-483

  Lebel, Catherine ^a   Benner, Thomas ^b   Beaulieu, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; diffusion tensor imaging; fractional anisotropy; tractography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INTERSUBJECT VARIATION; SIMULATION STUDIES; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER TRACTS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84863855472     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23254     Document Type: Article

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