Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 989-996 , October 2008

A multiple streamline approach to high angular resolution diffusion tractography

  • Yi-Ping Chao

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jyh-Horng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kuan-Hung Cho

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chun-Hung Yeh

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kun-Hsien Chou

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ching-Po Lin

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 28267338; fax: +886 2 28262285.

Received 30 June 2007 ,Revised 16 January 2008 ,Accepted 28 January 2008.

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PII: S1350-4533(08)00024-6

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.01.010

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 989-996 , October 2008

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