A spectral approach to analyzing slice selection in planar imaging: Optimization for through-plane interpolation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 151-160

  Noll, Douglas C ^a,c   Boada, Fernando E ^a   Eddy, William F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Image registration; Interpolation; Slice selection

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ERRORS; IMAGE REGISTRATION;

FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; GAUSSIAN PROFILES; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; INTERPOLATION ERROR; SLICE SELECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPECTRAL FRAMEWORK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

INTERPOLATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENERGY; ERROR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSE WAVE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION;

EID: 0030787847     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380121     Document Type: Article

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