Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 84-92 , January 2008

Quantitative Diffusion Tensor Analysis Using Multiple Tensor Ellipsoids Model and Tensor Field Interpolation at Fiber Crossing

Received 30 October 2006 ,Accepted 13 July 2007.

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1 This work was partially supported by the grant-in-aid for scientific research on priority areas; “Intelligent Assistance in Diagnosis of Multi-Dimensional Medical Images” from the ministry of education, culture, sports, science, and technology, Japan.

PII: S1076-6332(07)00395-9

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.07.004

Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 84-92 , January 2008

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