A Fourier based algorithm for tracking SPAMM tags in gated magnetic resonance cardiac images

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1359-1369

  Zhang, Shuqing ^a   Douglas, Margaret A ^a   Yaroslavsky, Leonid ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a   Dilsizian, Vasken ^a   Fananapazir, Lameh ^a   Bacharach, Stephen L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMIC PREDICTION; AUTOMATICALLY TRACKING; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; PHASE INFORMATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

HEART;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0029834496     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597819     Document Type: Article

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