Quantitative comparison of reconstruction methods for intra-voxel fiber recovery from diffusion MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 384-399

  Daducci, Alessandro ^a   Canales Rodriguez, Erick Jorge ^b,c   Descoteaux, Maxime ^d   Garyfallidis, Eleftherios ^e   Gur, Yaniv ^f,g   Lin, Ying Chia ^h   Mani, Merry ⁱ   Merlet, Sylvain ^j   Paquette, Michael ^d   Ramirez Manzanares, Alonso ^k   Reisert, Marco ^l   Rodrigues, Paulo Reis ^m   Sepehrband, Farshid ⁿ   Caruyer, Emmanuel ^j   Choupan, Jeiran ⁿ   Deriche, Rachid ^j   Jacob, Mathews ⁱ   Menegaz, Gloria ^h   Prckovska, Vesna ^o   Rivera, Mariano ^p   Wiaux, Yves ^a,q,r   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a,s   more..

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b FIDMAG GERMANES HOSPITALÀRIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

ⁱ University of Rochester   (United States)

^j INRIA   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

^l UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^o INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^p CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^q UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^r HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^s LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI); local reconstruction; quantitative comparison; synthetic data; validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84894069836     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2285500     Document Type: Article

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