Quantification of track-weighted imaging (TWI): Characterisation of within-subject reproducibility and between-subject variability

NeuroImage

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-31

  Willats, Lisa ^a   Raffelt, David ^a   Smith, Robert E ^a,b   Tournier, J Donald ^a,b   Connelly, Alan ^a,b   Calamante, Fernando ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Fibre tracking; Reproducibility; Super resolution; Track density imaging; Track weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETWEEN SUBJECT VARIABILITY; CALCULATION; CONTRAST; DULT; EFFECT SIZE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGION OF INTEREST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRACK WEIGHTED IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; WITHIN SUBJECT REPRODUCIBILITY;

2ND ORDER INTEGRATION OVER FIBRE ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS FIBRE-TRACKING ALGORITHM; ADC; AFD; APM; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; APPARENT FIBRE DENSITY; AVERAGE PATHLENGTH MAPPING; BETWEEN-SUBJECT; BS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONSTRAINED SPHERICAL DECONVOLUTION; CSD; CV; DIFFUSION MRI; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DWI; ECHO TIME; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EPI; FA; FIBRE ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION; FIBRE-TRACKING; FOD; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FULL-WIDTH AT HALF-MAXIMUM; FWHM; HARDI; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; IFOD2; PC; PERCENTAGE CHANGE; REGION OF INTEREST; REPETITION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROI; SUPER-RESOLUTION; TDI; TE; TR; TRACK-DENSITY IMAGING; TRACK-WEIGHTED; TRACK-WEIGHTED IMAGING; TW; TWI; WHITE MATTER; WITHIN-SUBJECT; WM; WS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84890877492     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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