Determination of the appropriate b value and number of gradient directions for high-angular-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1775-1786

  Tournier, J Donald ^a,b   Calamante, Fernando ^a,b   Connelly, Alan ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MRI; HARDI; High angular resolution diffusion weighted MRI

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; GRADIENT DIRECTION; HARDI; HIGHER-ORDER MODELS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

FOURIER SERIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

DIFFUSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; INFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; HARDI; HIGH-ANGULAR-RESOLUTION DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84888052786     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3017     Document Type: Article

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