Research Article

K-Optimal Gradient Encoding Scheme for Fourth-Order Tensor-Based Diffusion Profile Imaging

Table 4

Ten-fourth-order tensors used for evaluation of the proposed method. These tensors correspond to different fiber architectures as illustrated in Figure 1.


2 0.60 0.54 0.73 0.64 0.45 0.69 0.56 0.70 8.50
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0.38 0 0 0.03 0.79 0.29 0.84 0.34 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 13.31 23.77 12.51 8.66 5.47 10.86 7.48 7.25 8.50
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 −1.23 0 0 0 0 0.13 0.38 −0.05 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 30.02 0 0 0 0 10.37 6.80 15.23 0
3 0.99 2.16 0 0 0 0.02 0.04 0.01 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 27.03 0 0 0 0 3.93 2.32 12.49 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 9.70 0 0 0 0 0.69 0.35 4.35 0
17 1.83 0.29 12.27 16.20 19.33 12.32 16.18 13.01 8.50