Investigation of resolution effects using a specialized diffusion tensor phantom

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1108-1116

  Bach, Michael ^a   Fritzsche, Klaus H ^a   Stieltjes, Bram ^a   Laun, Frederik B ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

DTI; fiber tracking; partial volume effects; resolution phantom; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; POLYESTERS; PROCESSING; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; FIBER TRACKING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; PSYCHIATRIC DISEASE; SQUARE CROSS SECTION; TBSS;

PHANTOMS;

POLYESTER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FIBER; FIBER TRACKING ALGORITHM; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SOFTWARE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84894473931     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24774     Document Type: Article

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