A dual image approach for bias field correction in magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-125

  Lai, Shang Hong ^a   Fang, Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Intensity inhomogeneity correction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical image restoration; Spline surface fitting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0037308183     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00637-9     Document Type: Article

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