A Review of Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging Computational Methods and Software Tools

Overview

Journal Comput Biol Med

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Biology
General Medicine
Medical Informatics

Date 2010 Nov 20

PMID 21087766

Citations 29

Authors

Khader M Hasan

Indika S Walimuni

Humaira Abid

Klaus R Hahn

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Abstract

In this work we provide an up-to-date short review of computational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and software tools that are widely used to process and analyze diffusion-weighted MRI data. A review of different methods used to acquire, model and analyze diffusion-weighted imaging data (DWI) is first provided with focus on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The major preprocessing, processing and post-processing procedures applied to DTI data are discussed. A list of freely available software packages to analyze diffusion MRI data is also provided.

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