Evaluation of the fitting process in diffusion MRI analysis using digital phantom of the human brain

Here, we present a digital phantom for evaluating the kurtosis model in diffusion analysis of a human brain. The phantom images can be acquired by a simulation with setting the parameters in the cortex, white matter and some nuclei in the basal ganglia. The phantom may contribute to the estimation for the robustness to noise and it has the possibility to validate the reproducibility in the fitting for diffusion analysis in human study.