Improving DTI Tractography by including Diagonal Tract Propagation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Taylor, Paul A ^a   Cho, Kuan Hung ^b   Lin, Ching Po ^b   Biswal, Bharat B ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER ASSESSMENT BY CONTINUOUS TRACKING; FIBER ASSESSMENT BY CONTINUOUS TRACKING INCLUDING DIAGONALS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE FIBER; NOISE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROTATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84866179981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043415     Document Type: Article

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