Small vessel enhancement in MRA images using local maximum mean processing

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1687-1699

  Sun, Yi ^a,b   Parker, Dennis ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance angiography; Maximum intensity projection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0035510163     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.967397     Document Type: Article

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