Global tractography of multi-shell diffusion-weighted imaging data using a multi-tissue model

NeuroImage

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-101

  Christiaens, Daan ^a,e   Reisert, Marco ^b   Dhollander, Thijs ^a,c,e   Sunaert, Stefan ^d,e   Suetens, Paul ^a,e,f   Maes, Frederik ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f iMinds Medical IT Department ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Global tractography; Multi shell; Multi tissue model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84941208059     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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