Assessment of bias in experimentally measured diffusion tensor imaging parameters using SIMEX

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 891-902

  Lauzon, Carolyn B ^a,b   Crainiceanu, Ciprian ^c   Caffo, Brian C ^c   Landman, Bennett A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

bias; diffusion tensor imaging; fractional anisotropy; parameter estimation; simulation and extrapolation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION BARRIERS; EXTRAPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TENSORS;

BIAS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DISTRIBUTIONAL PROPERTY; EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; MICROMETER LEVELS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; NOISE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION AND EXTRAPOLATION;

EID: 84874386900     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24324     Document Type: Article

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