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The regularization term is the heuristic nuclear norm of the PSD matrix, since we expect it to be of low rank. In this way, we establish a convex quadratic semidefinite programming (SDP) model, whose global solution exists. The optimal solution could be solved by three efficient methods. While there are two state-of-the-art solvers---SDPT3 and QSDP---for the primal problem, we design a new augmented Lagrangian based alternating direction method (ADM) for the dual problem. Sensitivity analyses on the coefficients of the optimal diffusion tensor and the optimal objective function value with respect to noise-corrupted signals are presented. Experiments on synthetic data with multiple fibers show that the new method is robust to the Rician noise and outperforms several existing methods. Furthermore, when the fiber orientation distribution function is considered, the new method is competitive with the Q-ball imaging. 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