Pith Number

pith:2BZ4KR3W

pith:2017:2BZ4KR3WEKHY4EP7S4ZTTFS6CI

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Director Field Analysis (DFA): Exploring Local White Matter Geometric Structure in diffusion MRI

Jian Cheng, Peter J. Basser

arxiv:1706.01862 v2 · 2017-06-06 · cs.CV · physics.med-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BZ4KR3WEKHY4EP7S4ZTTFS6CI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:55.121839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d073c54776228f8e11ff973339965e121d6649d42792e789f359203ac1712276

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01862 · arxiv_version: 1706.01862v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01862 · pith_short_12: 2BZ4KR3WEKHY · pith_short_16: 2BZ4KR3WEKHY4EP7 · pith_short_8: 2BZ4KR3W

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2BZ4KR3WEKHY4EP7S4ZTTFS6CI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d073c54776228f8e11ff973339965e121d6649d42792e789f359203ac1712276

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69e171d37b05b6a23b7e8b1d80c53a958c90abe84be63be0bc0a5250aaed0f45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.med-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-06T17:23:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fece9e06f04cb787925cebb6e33abcbf780aff0129f7e5c2b42773ec789a8f25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01862",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}