Track orientation density imaging (TODI) and track orientation distribution (TOD) based tractography

NeuroImage

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 312-336

  Dhollander, Thijs ^a   Emsell, Louise ^a,b,c   Van Hecke, Wim ^a   Maes, Frederik ^a   Sunaert, Stefan ^a,b,c   Suetens, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Fiber orientation distribution; Fiber tractography; Track orientation density imaging; Track orientation distribution; Track orientation weighted imaging; Track density imaging; Track like local support; Track weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACK ORIENTATION DENSITY IMAGING; TRACT ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION; TRACTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84900317187     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.047     Document Type: Article

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