Abstract

Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this supplement is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1532-429X-13-S1-full.pdf.EMPTY Purpose To define a robust quantitative parameter to measure physiological variation and experimental error in diffusion MRI tractography datasets of the myocardium Introduction Techniques to analyze diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) datasets in the myocardium are limited. The NQE robustly detects the noisy dataset obtained in the third sheep heart (green) and shows the image quality is lowest with the 12-direction encoding scheme. [figure omitted; refer to PDF] Results The lateral wall of a human heart is shown in Figure [figure omitted; refer to PDF] .

Details

Title
From qualitative to quantitative tractography: a novel method to measure variation and error in diffusion mr tractography datasets of the myocardium
Author
Mekkaoui, Choukri; Huang, Shuning; Dai, Guangping; Reese, Timothy G; Thiagalingham, Aravinda; Hoffmann, Udo; Jackowski, Marcel P; Sosnovik, David E
First page
P19
Publication year
2011
Publication date
2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
10976647
e-ISSN
1532429X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-S1-P19
ProQuest document ID
902270442
Copyright
© 2011 Mekkaoui et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.