Diffusion k-tensor estimation from Q-ball imaging using discretized principal axes.

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv

Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA.

Published: April 2007

A reoccurring theme in the diffusion tensor imaging literature is the per-voxel estimation of a symmetric 3 x 3 tensor describing the measured diffusion. In this work we attempt to generalize this approach by calculating 2 or 3 or up to k diffusion tensors for each voxel. We show that our procedure can more accurately describe the diffusion particularly when crossing fibers or fiber-bundles are present in the datasets.

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