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. 2012 Nov 26;7(11):e48232. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048232

Figure 3. CUbe and SPhere (CUSP) imaging can be constructed as a truncated or a projected multi-shell HARDI.

Figure 3

(a): In CUSP-T (Truncated), we consider a multi-shell HARDI with uniformly spaced radius (blue, green, red) and truncate those parts of the shells that project outside of the cube of constant TE of the inner shell. (b): CUSP-xT (eXponential Truncated) employs portion of multiple shells with exponentially spaced radius to achieve an improved uniformity of SNR. (c): In CUSP-P (Projected), we consider an inner shell at Inline graphic (blue) and an outer shell at Inline graphic (red). The gradients of the outer shell are projected to the cube of constant TE (grey) to avoid any increase in TE. In these figures, the spherical and cubic sampling were shown in different partitions of q-space for visualization purpose.