Medical Image Analysis
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 603-621 , August 2011

Multiple q-shell diffusion propagator imaging

  • Maxime Descoteaux

      Affiliations

    • MOIVRE Center, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boul. Université, J1K 2R1, Sherbrooke, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 819 821 8000x66129; fax: +1 819 821 8200.
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  • Rachid Deriche

      Affiliations

    • Athena Project Team, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, 2004 route des Lucioles, 06902, France
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  • Denis Le Bihan

      Affiliations

    • NeuroSpin, IFR 49 CEA Saclay, Bat. 145, PC 156, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  • Jean-François Mangin

      Affiliations

    • NeuroSpin, IFR 49 CEA Saclay, Bat. 145, PC 156, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  • Cyril Poupon

      Affiliations

    • NeuroSpin, IFR 49 CEA Saclay, Bat. 145, PC 156, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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☆ A preliminary version of this paper appears in the proceedings of the Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) conference, Virginia, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5636, Pages 1–13, July 2009.

PII: S1361-8415(10)00093-9

doi: 10.1016/j.media.2010.07.001

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 603-621 , August 2011

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