A novel measure of reliability in Diffusion Tensor Imaging after data rejections due to subject motion

NeuroImage

Volumn 147, Issue , 2017, Pages 57-65

  Sairanen, V ^a,b   Kuusela, L ^a,b   Sipila O ^b   Savolainen, S ^a,b   Vanhatalo, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Condition number; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Neonatal MRI; Quality; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITION NUMBER; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR ORIENTATION VECTOR; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOTION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKFLOW; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85005950570     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.061     Document Type: Article

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