Pushing the limits of in vivo diffusion MRI for the Human Connectome Project

NeuroImage

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 220-233

  Setsompop, K ^a   Kimmlingen, R ^b   Eberlein, E ^b   Witzel, T ^a   Cohen Adad, J ^a   McNab, J A ^a   Keil, B ^a   Tisdall, M D ^a   Hoecht, P ^b   Dietz, P ^b   Cauley, S F ^a   Tountcheva, V ^a   Matschl, V ^b   Lenz, V H ^b   Heberlein, K ^c   Potthast, A ^b   Thein, H ^b   Van Horn, J ^d   Toga, A ^d   Schmitt, F ^b   Lehne, D ^b   Rosen, B R ^a   Wedeen, V ^a   Wald, L L ^a   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; DSI; Gradient hardware; HARDI; MRI; Structural connectivity

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDDY COVARIANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIFFUSION IMAGING; DSI; GRADIENT HARDWARE; HARDI; MRI; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84880324826     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.078     Document Type: Article

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