Graded image segmentation of brain tissue in the presence of inhomogeneous radio frequency fields

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 431-436

  Mason, Graeme F ^a   Rothman, Douglas L ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; MR spectroscopy; Segmentation; Surface coil

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CALCULATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 0036592881     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00510-6     Document Type: Article

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