Review and evaluation of MRI nonuniformity corrections for brain tumor response measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1655-1666

  Velthuizen, Robert P ^a,b   Heine, John J ^a,b   Cantor, Alan B ^a   Lin, Hongbo ^a,b   Fletcher, Lynn M ^c   Clarke, Laurence P ^a,b  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c ENB 118   (United States)

Author keywords

Homomorphic filter; Image correction; Image segmentation; MRI; MRI phantom; Nonuniformity; Thin plate splines; Tumor response

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHANTOMS; TUMORS;

HOMOMORPHIC FILTER; IMAGE CORRECTION; NONUNIFORMITY; THIN PLATE SPLINE; TUMOR RESPONSE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BRAIN TUMOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0031657393     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598357     Document Type: Review

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