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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2016 May 16;32:243–256. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2016.05.008

Table 1.

Symbols used in FORNI

Symbol Definition
vi Basis direction
i, q Index for basis directions
N Number of basis directions
G Dictionary matrix containing attenuation terms
m, n, m0, m1 Index for voxels
M Number of voxels
wm,n Voxel similarity between m and n
𝒩m Neighborhood of m
Dm Diffusion tensor at m
ym Diffusion signal at m
fm Mixture fraction at m
m Estimated mixture fraction at m
m Normalized mixture fraction estimate at m
fm,i Entry of fm
fth Mixture fraction threshold
wm,j FO at m
j Index for FOs
𝒲m The set of all FOs at m
um,p Likely FO at m
p Index for likely FOs
𝒰m The set of all likely FOs at m
Cm Weighting matrix at m
Cm,i Diagonal entry of Cm
α, β, μ Parameters in FORNI
rm,n(i) Basis-neighbor similarity
Rm(i) Aggregate basis-neighbor similarity
θR An angle threshold
t Index for iterations
Np Number of voxels processed in parallel