International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 320195, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/320195
Research Article

Accurate Anisotropic Fast Marching for Diffusion-Based Geodesic Tractography

1Laboratoire d'Imagerie Fonctionnelle, INSERM, U678, Paris 75013, France
2Faculté de Médecine Pitié Salpêtrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 678 CNRS, Paris 75013, France
3Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
4McConnell Bain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal H3A 2T5, Canada
5Brain & Body Centre, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
6Functional Imaging Laboratory, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
7Unité d'Imagerie Fonctionnelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada

Received 1 May 2007; Accepted 21 September 2007

Academic Editor: Oury Monchi

Copyright © 2008 S. Jbabdi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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