Addressing the path-length-dependency confound in white matter tract segmentation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Liptrot, Matthew G ^a,b   Sidaros, Karam ^a   Dyrby, Tim B ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EX VIVO STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PATH LENGTH DEPENDENCY; SWINE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; PIG; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SWINE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84900445033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096247     Document Type: Article

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