@inproceedings{Descoteaux2006, title = {A fast and robust ODF estimation algorithm in Q-ball imaging}, author = {M. Descoteaux and E. Angelino and S. Fitzgibbons and R. Deriche}, booktitle = {Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on}, month = {6-9 April}, pages = {81--84}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2274e2283dfdc85a4693e0bc3437c3a9e/bmeyer}, description = {Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)}, abstract = {We propose a simple and straightforward analytic solution for the Q-ball reconstruction of the diffusion orientation distribution function (ODF) of the underlying fiber population. First, the signal is modeled with a high order spherical harmonic series using a Laplace-Beltrami regularization method which leads to an elegant mathematical simplification of the Funk-Radon transform using the Funk-Hecke formula. In doing so, we obtain a fast and robust model-free ODF approximation. We validate the accuracy of the estimation quantitatively against synthetic data generated from the multi-tensor model and show that our estimated ODF can recover known multiple fiber regions in a biological phantom and in the human brain.}, doi = {10.1109/ISBI.2006.1624857}, owner = {bzfbmeye}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/odyssee/Publications/2006/descoteaux-angelino-etal:06b.pdf}, timestamp = {2006.11.22}, keywords = {DTI, Diffusion Diffusion, Imaging, Q-Ball Tensor } }