A Homogeneity Correction Method for Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Time-Vaiying Gradients

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 629-637

  Noll, Douglas C ^a   Meyer, Craig H ^b   Pauly, John M ^b   Nishimura, Dwight G ^b   Macovski, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - VECTORS;

HOMOGENEITY CORRECTED IMAGE; PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; TIME-VARYING GRADIENTS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0026399654     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.108599     Document Type: Article

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