Angular smoothing and radial regularization of ODF fields: Application on deterministic crossing fiber tractography

Physica Medica

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-32

  Otto, K M ^a   Ehricke, H H ^a   Kumar, V ^b,d   Klose, U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES STRALSUND   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossing fibers; Diffusion imaging; Fiber tracking; HARDI; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; ODF; Regularization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGULAR SMOOTHING AND RADIAL REGULARIZATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER CROSSING; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84871787383     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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