An automatic approach for estimating bolus arrival time in dynamic contrast MRI using piecewise continuous regression models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Cheong, L H ^a   Koh, T S ^a   Hou, Z ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BOLUS ARRIVAL TIMES (BAT);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037423915     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/5/403     Document Type: Article

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