DTI of human skeletal muscle: The effects of diffusion encoding parameters, signal-to-noise ratio and T2 on tensor indices and fiber tracts

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1339-1352

  Froeling, Martijn ^a,b   Nederveen, Aart J ^b   Nicolay, Klaas ^a   Strijkers, Gustav J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion encoding parameters; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tractography; Signal to noise ratio; Simulation; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; DIFFUSION GRADIENTS; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; ENCODING PARAMETERS; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; MUSCLE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TENSORS;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; MUSCLE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

DIFFUSION ENCODING PARAMETERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84885960225     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2959     Document Type: Article

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