A fast implementation of the minimum spanning tree method for phase unwrapping

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 805-808

  An, L ^a   Chavez, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical imaging; Phase unwrapping

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS; TIME;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCOMPUTERS; TIME FACTORS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MINIMUM SPANNING TREE; PHASE UNWRAPPING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0034238079     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.876306     Document Type: Article

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