Improving alignment in Tract-based spatial statistics: Evaluation and optimization of image registration

NeuroImage

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 400-411

  De Groot, Marius ^a   Vernooij, Meike W ^a   Klein, Stefan ^a   Ikram, M Arfan ^a   Vos, Frans M ^b,c   Smith, Stephen M ^d   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b   Andersson, Jesper L R ^d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; Elastix; Evaluation; FNIRT; Registration; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84876730725     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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