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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: Concepts Magn Reson Part A Bridg Educ Res. 2014 Apr 15;43(1):1–27. doi: 10.1002/cmr.a.21288

Figure 12.

Figure 12

Schematic of Monte Carlo streamline methods. First, the PDF of fiber orientations for each given voxel is estimated using either parametric assumptions, Bayesian, or bootstrap methods. Next, a fiber orientation is drawn with replacement from the fiber orientation PDF. Deterministic tracking is then performed using the sampled fiber orientation, and the streamline is recorded. The process is repeated for n > 1,000 iterations.