Real-time multi-peak tractography for instantaneous connectivity display

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Chamberland, Maxime ^a,b   Whittingstall, Kevin ^a,b   Fortin, David ^a,b   Mathieu, David ^b   Descoteaux, Maxime ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion MRI; Free open source software; HARDI; Medical visualization; Neurosurgical planning; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROSURGERY; REAL TIME FIBER TRACKING; REAL TIME MULTI PEAK TRACTOGRAPHY; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84901857318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00059     Document Type: Article

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