Does diffusion MRI tell us anything about the white matter? An overview of methods and pitfalls

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 133-141

  O'Donnell, Lauren J ^a   Pasternak, Ofer ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical research; Diffusion MRI; Neuroimaging; Non specificity; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84920586770     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.09.007     Document Type: Review

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