Reproducibility of diffusion tensor imaging in normal subjects: An evaluation of different gradient sampling schemes and registration algorithm

Neuroradiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 497-510

  Liu, Xin ^a   Yang, Yong ^c   Sun, Jubao ^b   Yu, Gang ^d   Xu, Jin ^a   Niu, Chen ^a   Tian, Hongjun ^e   Lin, Pan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Nanjing Fullshare Superconducting Technology co ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion encoding directions; Registration; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; ALGORITHM; BRAIN MAPPING; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84904340102     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-014-1342-2     Document Type: Article

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