Parametric Representation of Multiple White Matter Fascicles from Cube and Sphere Diffusion MRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Scherrer, Benoit ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84870003438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048232     Document Type: Article

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