A simple simultaneous geometric and intensity correction method for echo-planar imaging by EPI-based phase modulation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-205

  Chiou, Jr Yuan ^a   Ahn, Chang Beom ^b   Muftuler, Lutfi Tugan ^c   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Echo planar imaging (EPI); Field inhomogeneity; Geometric distortions; Nonuniform intensity

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLOWCHARTING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; PHASE MODULATION FACTOR; PHASE UNWRAPPING PROCESS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0038398642     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.808362     Document Type: Article

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