The impact of gradient strength on in vivo diffusion MRI estimates of axon diameter

NeuroImage

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 464-472

  Huang, Susie Y ^a   Nummenmaa, Aapo ^a   Witzel, Thomas ^a   Duval, Tanguy ^b   Cohen Adad, Julien ^b   Wald, Lawrence L ^a,c   McNab, Jennifer A ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXON DENSITY; AXON DIAMETER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GRADIENT STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; UNCERTAINTY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE FIBER; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AXONS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84920148666     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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