Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 205-218 , April 2010

DWI filtering using joint information for DTI and HARDI

Received 12 November 2008 ,Revised 5 August 2009 ,Accepted 9 November 2009.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 205-218 , April 2010

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