Optimized homomorphic unsharp masking for MR grayscale inhomogeneity correction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-171

  Brinkmann, Benjamin H ^a   Manduca, Armando ^a   Robb, Richard A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Grayscale inhomogeneity; Image restoration; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Nonlinear filtering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

GRAYSCALE INHOMOGENEITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0032034233     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.700729     Document Type: Article

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