Ghost artifact reduction for echo planar imaging using image phase correction

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-100

  Buonocore, Michael H ^a   Gao, Lisheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Echo planar imaging; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CHEMICAL SHIFT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ARTIFACTS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI); IMAGE INTENSITIES; PHASE CORRECTIONS; SPATIAL DIRECTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0030802130     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380114     Document Type: Article

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