Using fMRI non-local means denoising to uncover activation in sub-cortical structures at 1.5 T for guided HARDI tractography

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bernier, Michaël ^a   Chamberland, Maxime ^a   Houde, Jean Christophe ^a   Descoteaux, Maxime ^a   Whittingstall, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Denoising; dMRI; fMRI; HARDI; Non local means; Seeding strategy; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FINGER TAPPING TEST; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING TRACTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PUTAMEN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84933676657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00715     Document Type: Article

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