Multispectral Analysis of the Brain Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 470-481

  Taxt, Torfinn ^a   Lundervold, Arvid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

MULTISPECTRAL ANALYSIS; PIXEL INTENSITY VALUES; PULSE ACQUISITION PARAMETERS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0028497967     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.310878     Document Type: Article

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