New approaches to estimation of white matter connectivity in diffusion tensor MRI: Elliptic PDEs and geodesics in a tensor-warped space

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2488, Issue , 2002, Pages 459-466

  O’Donnell, Lauren ^a   Haker, Steven ^b   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; GEODESIC PATHS; NEW APPROACHES; RIEMANNIAN FRAMEWORK; STEADY STATE CONCENTRATION; WARPED SPACES; WHITE MATTER CONNECTIVITIES;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

EID: 84974663222     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45786-0_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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