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Abstract #0790

Free-Water Elimination for Assessing Microstructural Gray Matter Pathology - With Application to Alzheimer's Disease

Thomas van Bruggen1, Hui Zhang2, Ofer Pasternak3, Hans-Peter Meinzer1, Bram Stieltjes4, Klaus Hermann Fritzsche1, 4

1Division of Medical and Biological Informatics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; 2Department of Computer Science & Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 4Division of Quantitative Image-based Disease Characterization, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

 

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