Publications
"A more accurate and b-value independent estimation of diffusion parameters using Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging",
ISMRM Chapter Benelux conference proceedings, Utrecht, the Netherlands, pp. 10, January, 2010.
"Noise measurement from magnitude MRI using local estimates of variance and skewness.",
Physics in medicine and biology, vol. 55, issue 16, pp. N441-9, 2010 Aug 21.
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"Optimal experimental design for Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging",
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 819-829, 2010.
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"Segmentation Based Noise Variance Estimation from Background MRI Data",
ICIAR , vol. 6111, Porto, Portugal, Springer LNCS, pp. 62-70, 2010.
"Advances in the reconstruction and statistical processing of Magnetic Resonance images",
University of Antwerp, vol. PhD in Sciences: Physics, 2009.
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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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"Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) reveals an early phenotype (P30) in a transgenic rat model for Huntington’s disease",
ISMRM conference proceedings, vol. 2009, pp. 359, April, 2009.
"DKI visualizes hippocampal alterations in the chronic mild stress ratmodel",
ISMRM conference proceedings, vol. 2009, pp. 744, April, 2009.
"Likelihood based hypothesis tests for brain activation detection from MRI data disturbed by colored noise: a simulation study",
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 287-296, February, 2009.
"Optimizing the Diffusion Weighting Gradients for Diffusion-Kurtosis Imaging",
ISMRM2009 proceedings, vol. 2009, pp. 1394, April, 2009.
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"Pearson Set of Distributions as Improved Signal Model for Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging",
ISMRM conference proceedings: ISMRM, pp. 1383, April, 2009.
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"An exploration of spatial similarities in temporal noise spectra in fMRI measurements",
Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, vol. 6914, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 69142, February, 2008.
"Improved EPI Correction: Upgrading An Ultrafast Imaging Technique",
Liege Image Days 2008: Medical Imaging, March, 2008.
"Optimizing the Diffusion Kurtosis imaging acquisition",
European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Valencia, Spain, October, 2008.
"Susceptibility correction for improved tractography using high field DT-EPI",
Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 6914, San Diego, USA, February, 2008.
"Automatic estimation of the noise variance from the histogram of a magnetic resonance image",
Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1335-1348, February, 2007.
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"Automatic estimation of the noise variance from the histogram of a magnetic resonance image",
IEEE/EBMS Benelux Symposium proceedings: IEEE/EMBS, pp. 135-138, December, 2006.
"Estimation of the noise variance from the background histogram mode of an MR image",
Proceedings of the 25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March, 2006.
"Estimation of the noise variance from the background histogram mode of an MR image",
Proceedings of SPS-DARTS 2006 (The second annual IEEE BENELUX/DSP Valley Signal Processing Symposium), Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 159-162, March, 2006.
"Robust estimation of the noise variance from background MR data",
Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, vol. 6144, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 2018-2028, February, 2006.