Voxel-Wise Functional Connectomics Using Arterial Spin Labeling Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Role of Denoising

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 543-553

  Liang, Xiaoyun ^a   Connelly, Alan ^a,b,c   Calamante, Fernando ^a,b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; denoising; dual tree complex wavelet; network efficiency; nonlocal means; voxel wise functional connectomics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING; VOXEL WISE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTOMICS; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

SPIN LABELING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84954358937     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2014.0290     Document Type: Article

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