The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the b-value on the high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) reconstruction and to seek for the appropriate b-value for orientation distribution function (ODF) reconstruction from clinical HARDI data. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the ODF and the angular difference of the peaks extracted from ODF were measured to investigate the effect of b-value on the ODF reconstruction. Visual inspection of the ODF was used to evaluate the reconstructions. More detail is provided in "How Does B-Value Affect HARDI Reconstruction using Clinical Diffusion MRI Data?", PLoS ONE (forthcoming).
Date Submitted: 2015-02-11
The article with all relevant documentation will be published in PLOS ONE within a few weeks. The paper has been submitted for publication on February 18th. The DOI is 10.1371/journal.pone.0120773