Experimentally and computationally fast method for estimation of a mean kurtosis

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1754-1760

  Hansen, Brian ^a   Lund, Torben E ^a   Sangill, Ryan ^a   Jespersen, Sune Nørhøj ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Higher order tensors; Kurtosis; Orientational Sampling

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; TENSORS;

CLINICAL SETTINGS; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTING; HIGHER-ORDER TENSOR; KURTOSIS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION;

DIFFUSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891895007     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24743     Document Type: Article

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