Deterministic diffusion fiber tracking improved by quantitative anisotropy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Yeh, Fang Cheng ^a   Verstynen, Timothy D ^b   Wang, Yibao ^c   Fernández Miranda, Juan C ^c   Tseng, Wen Yih Isaac ^d,e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84894064720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080713     Document Type: Article

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