Q-space trajectory imaging for multidimensional diffusion MRI of the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 135, Issue , 2016, Pages 345-362

  Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a,b   Knutsson, Hans ^b   Pasternak, Ofer ^a   Szczepankiewicz, Filip ^c   Özarslan, Evren ^a,d   van Westen, Danielle ^c   Mattisson, Cecilia ^c   Bogren, Mats ^c   O'Donnell, Lauren J ^a   Kubicki, Marek ^a   Topgaard, Daniel ^c   Nilsson, Markus ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

DDE; Diffusion MRI; Diffusion tensor distribution; DTI; Microscopic anisotropy; Microscopic fractional anisotropy FA; q space; q space trajectory; QTI; SDE; TDE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; PILOT STUDY; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q SPACE TRAJECTORY IMAGING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84973115643     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.039     Document Type: Article

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