Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping Using a Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 355-365

  Ching, Neng H ^a   Rosenfeld, Dov ^a   Braun, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

magnetic resonance imaging; phase mapping; Phase unwrapping; two dimensional (2 D) signal processing

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION--APPLICATIONS;

MINIMUM SPANNING TREE ALGORITHM;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0026899989     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.148608     Document Type: Article

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