Reliability and exactness of MRI-based volumetry: A phantom study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 700-704

  Luft, Andreas R ^a   Skalej, Martin ^a   Weite, Dorothea ^a   Kolb, Ruppert ^a   Klose, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image processing; MRI; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; SEPHAROSE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GELS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NICKEL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEPHAROSE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030184668     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880060421     Document Type: Article

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