Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 569-582 , June 2006

A statistical framework for the classification of tensor morphologies in diffusion tensor images

  • Hongtu Zhu

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA. Tel.: +1 212 543 5207; fax: +1 212 543 6660.
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  • Dongrong Xu

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Amir Raz

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Xuejun Hao

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Heping Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA
    • ,
  • Alayar Kangarlu

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Ravi Bansal

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Bradley S. Peterson

      Affiliations

    • MRI Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
    • Department of Child Psychiatry, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 22 October 2005 ,Accepted 16 January 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.01.004

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 569-582 , June 2006

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