Improved in vivo diffusion tensor imaging of human cervical spinal cord

NeuroImage

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 64-76

  Xu, Junqian ^a,b   Shimony, Joshua S ^a   Klawiter, Eric C ^a,c   Snyder, Abraham Z ^a   Trinkaus, Kathryn ^a   Naismith, Robert T ^a   Benzinger, Tammie L S ^a   Cross, Anne H ^a   Song, Sheng Kwei ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac gating; Cervical spinal cord; Diffusion tensor imaging; Directional diffusivity; Lateral corticospinal tract; Non negative eigenvalue priors; Outlier rejection; Posterior column; Reduced FOV; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870998913     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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