Beyond fractional anisotropy: Extraction of bundle-specific structural metrics from crossing fiber models

NeuroImage

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 176-191

  Riffert, Till W ^a   Schreiber, Jan ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Knösche, Thomas R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bingham distribution; Diffusion MRI; Fiber orientation density function; Microstructural metrics; Spherical deconvolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINGHAM DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINED SPHERICAL DECONVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBER ORIENTATION DENSITY FUNCTION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; MICROANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PEAK DIRECTION; PEAK LENGTH; PEAK SPREAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84903897304     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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