Measurement of small inter-scan fluctuations in voxel dimensions in magnetic resonance images using registration

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1049-1054

  Lemieux, Louis ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometric distortion; Image registration; MRI; QA

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; GRADIENT PERFORMANCE; MR IMAGES; STANDARD TESTS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031859144     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598288     Document Type: Article

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