Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1335-1343 , November 2010

Noise and nonlinear estimation with optimal schemes in DTI

Received 10 November 2009 ,Accepted 18 April 2010.

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☆ This study was supported, in part, by the Washington University Small Animal Imaging Resource, a National Cancer Institute-funded Small Animal Imaging Resource Program facility (U24-CA83060), and the NIH/NINDS grant Biomarkers and Pathogenesis of MS (P01-NS059560).

PII: S0730-725X(10)00154-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.04.001

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1335-1343 , November 2010

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