Investigating the tradeoffs between spatial resolution and diffusion sampling for brain mapping with diffusion tractography: Time well spent?

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5667-5685

  Calabrese, Evan ^a,b   Badea, Alexandra ^a   Coe, Christopher L ^c   Lubach, Gabriele R ^c   Styner, Martin A ^d,e   Johnson, G Allan ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectome; Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Macaca mulatta; Neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EX VIVO STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TRACTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84919587048     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22578     Document Type: Article

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