Quantification of multiple sclerosis lesion volumes in 1.5 and 0.5 T anisotropically filtered and unfiltered MR exams

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-126

  Mitchell, J Ross ^a,b   Karlik, Stephen J ^a,b   Lee, Donald H ^a,b   Eliasziw, Michael ^a,b   Rice, George P ^a,b   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Department of Medical Biophysics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; ANISOTROPIC FILTERING; FIELD STRENGTHS; LESION QUANTIFICATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESIONS; OPERATOR RELIABILITY; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS;

PASSIVE FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0030063634     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597689     Document Type: Article

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