Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 200-211 , February 2010

Efficient anisotropic filtering of diffusion tensor images

  • Qing Xu

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • ,
  • Adam W. Anderson

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • ,
  • John C. Gore

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • ,
  • Zhaohua Ding

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN 37232-2310, USA. Tel.: +1 615 322 7889; fax: +1 615 322 0734.

Received 5 August 2009 ,Accepted 12 October 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00279-3

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.10.001

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 200-211 , February 2010

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