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J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2009, 2, 96-101 The effect of different number of diffusion gradients on SNR of diffusion tensor-derived measurement maps 1 1* 1 2 Na Zhang , Zhen-Sheng Deng , Fang Wang , Xiao-Yi Wang 1Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Info-physics and Geomatics Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China 2 (410083); Department of Radiology, XiangYa Hospital of School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China (410008);*Corresponding author: Zhensheng Deng (bmedzs@ or dengzhensheng@) Received Dec. 12th, 2008; revised Feb. 12th, 2009; accepted Feb. 16th, 2009 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is mainly applied Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has emerged as a nonin- to white matter fiber tracking in human brain, vasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modality ca- but there is still a debate on how many diffusion pable of providing in vivo fundamental information of gradient directions should be used to get the the white matter structure, which is required for viewing best results. In this paper, the performance of 7 structural connectivity in the human brain [1,2]. It is 9 protocols corresponding to 6, 9, 12, 15, 20, 25, commonly used to demonstrate subtle abnormalities in a 0 and 30 noncollinear number of diffusion gradi- variety of diseases (including stroke, multiple sclerosis, 0 2 © ent directions