Position-orientation adaptive smoothing of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance data (POAS)

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1142-1155

  Becker, S M A ^a   Tabelow, K ^a   Voss, H U ^b   Anwander, A ^c   Heidemann, R M ^c   Polzehl, J ^a  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Lie groups; POAS; Special Euclidean motion group; Structural adaptive smoothing

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; BIAS AND VARIABILITY; DIFFUSION GRADIENTS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EUCLIDEAN MOTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MEASUREMENT SPACES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; POAS; POSITION-ORIENTATION; QUALITY OF DATA;

ALGORITHMS; LIE GROUPS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DIFFUSION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NOISE REDUCTION; POSITION ORIENTATION ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866063114     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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