Spatial regularization of flow patterns in magnetic resonance velocity mapping

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 851-860

  Herment, Alain ^a,b   Mousseaux, Elie ^a   De Cesare, Alain ^a   Jolivet, Odile ^a   Philippe Dumée, Dea ^a   Todd Pokropek, Andrew ^a,c   Bittoun, Jaeeprs ^d  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Aortic flow; Magnetic resonance imaging; Regularization; Velocimetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ADULT; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032735473     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199911)10:5<851::AID-JMRI34>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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