Minimum SNR and acquisition for bias-free estimation of fractional anisotropy in diffusion tensor imaging - a comparison of two analytical techniques and field strengths

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1123-1133

  Seo, Youngseob ^a,b   Wang, Zhiyue J ^a,b   Morriss, Michael C ^a,b   Rollins, Nancy K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias free FA; Diffusion tensor imaging; Manual ROI analysis; SNR threshold; Tract based spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIELD STRENGTH; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; QUALITY CONTROL; REGION OF INTEREST ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

RADIATA;

EID: 84866151412     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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