Improving the correction of eddy current-induced distortion in diffusion-weighted images by excluding signals from the cerebral spinal fluid

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 542-551

  Liu, Wei ^a,b   Liu, Xiaozheng ^a,b   Yang, Guang ^a   Zhou, Zhenyu ^b   Zhou, Yongdi ^c   Li, Gengying ^a   Dubin, Marc ^d   Bansal, Ravi ^b   Peterson, Bradley S ^b   Xu, Dongrong ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Distortion correction; Eddy current; Iterative cross correlation; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

AFFECTING FACTORS; BRAIN VENTRICLES; CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUIDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISTORTION CORRECTION; ERROR SOURCES; ERROR TOLERANCE; GRADIENT BASED; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PROCESS DATA;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDDY CURRENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CALIBRATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EDDY CURRENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENTROPY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE CROSS CORRELATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ENTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84865564707     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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