Publications
"A preliminary study of diffusion tensor imaging and tractography of the spinal cord in elderly",
21th Annual Symposium - Belgian Hospital Physicists Association, Ghent, Belgium, pp. 61, 2006.
"Comparing isotropic and anisotropic smoothing for voxel-based DTI analyses: A simulation study",
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 98-114, 2010.
"A complementary DTI-histological study in a model of Huntingtons disease",
Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 945-959, 2012.
"Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Diffusion Kurtosis Tensor Using a Rician Noise Model",
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 678-686, 2011.
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"On the construction of a ground truth framework for evaluating voxel-based diffusion tensor MRI analysis methods",
NeuroImage, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 692-707, July, 2009.
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"On the construction of an inter-subject diffusion tensor magnetic resonance atlas of the healthy human brain",
NeuroImage, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 69-80, 2008.
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"Correlation of cognitive dysfunction and diffusion tensor MRI measures in patients with mild and moderate multiple sclerosis",
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1492-1498, May, 2010.
"Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging: a possible MRI biomarker for AD diagnosis?",
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 937-948, 2015.
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"Diffusion kurtosis imaging in the grading of gliomas",
Radiology, vol. 2, no. 263, pp. 492-501, 2012.
"A diffusion tensor imaging group study of the spinal cord in multiple sclerosis patients with and without T2 spinal cord lesions.",
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI, vol. 30, issue 1, pp. 25-34, 2009 Jul.
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"Does the use of hormonal contraceptives cause microstructural changes in cerebral white matter? Preliminary results of a DTI and tractography study.",
European radiology, vol. 23, issue 1, pp. 57-64, 2012 Jul 20, 2013.
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"The effect of template selection on diffusion tensor voxel based analysis results",
NeuroImage, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 566-573, 2011.
"Influence of User-Defined Parameters on Diffusion Tensor Tractography of the Corticospinal Tract",
The Neuroradiology Journal, no. 20, pp. 139-147, 2007.
"Limbic and callosal white matter changes in euthymic bipolar I disorder: an advanced diffusion MRI tractography study",
Biologicial Psychiatry, vol. 73, issue 2, pp. 194-201, 2013.
"More accurate estimation of diffusion tensor parameters using diffusion kurtosis imaging",
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 138-145, January, 2011.
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"Nonrigid Coregistration of Diffusion Tensor Images Using a Viscous Fluid Model and Mutual Information",
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 1598-1612, 2007.
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"Population-averaged diffusion tensor imaging atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat brain",
NeuroImage, vol. 58, issue 4, pp. 975-983, 2011.
"Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: revisited.",
Human brain mapping, vol. 30, issue 11, pp. 3657-75, 2009 Nov.
"Regional gray matter volume differences and sex-hormone correlations as a function of menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptives use.",
Brain research, vol. 1530, pp. 22-31, 2013 Sep 12.
"Super-Resolution for Multislice Diffusion Tensor Imaging",
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 69, issue 1, pp. 103–113, 2013.
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"A tracking based DTI segmentation method for the detection of diffusion-related changes of the cervical spinal cord with aging",
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 978-991, March, 2008.
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"Improved Processing for Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images for Coregistration, Atlas Construction, and Voxel Based Analysis",
Department of Physics, Antwerp, University of Antwerp, 2009.
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