A semi-automatic technique for measurement of arterial wall from black blood MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1098-1107

  Ladak, H M ^a   Thomas, J B ^a   Mitchell, J R ^a   Rutt, B K ^a   Steinman, D A ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Artery wall measurement; Atherogenesis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical image processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLOOD; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS; ATHEROGENESIS; MANUAL MEASUREMENTS; OPERATOR RELIABILITY; RADIUS MEASUREMENTS; RELIABLE DETECTION; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

ADULT; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS;

EID: 0034968316     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1368125     Document Type: Article

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