Optimization of MRI Protocols and Pulse Sequence Parameters for Eigenimage Filtering

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 161-175

  Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a   Saigal, Romesh ^b   Windham, Joe P ^a   Yagle, Andrew E ^b   Hearshen, David O ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

BRAIN IMAGES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DISSIMILARITY; EIGENIMAGE FILTERING; GRADIENT ECHO; IMAGE GRAY LEVELS; INVERSION RECOVERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING PROTOCOLS; MULTIPLE SPIN ECHO; PHANTOM IMAGES;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 0028391865     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.276155     Document Type: Article

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