Automatic quality assessment protocol for MRI equipment

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2693-2700

  Bourel, Philippe ^a   Gibon, David ^a,b   Coste, Eric ^a   Daanen, Vincent ^a,c   Rousseau, Jean ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Department of Medical Oncology   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Image processing; MRI; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT DETECTION; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOFTWARE TESTING;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE POINTS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SLICE THICKNESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS;

EID: 0033430135     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598809     Document Type: Article

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