Quantification of regional fat volume in rat MRI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5031, Issue , 2003, Pages 289-297

  Sacha, Jaroslaw P ^a   Cockman, Michael D ^a   Dufresne, Thomas E ^a   Trokhan, Darren P ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Automatic tissue delineation; Body composition; Java; MRI; Segmentation; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC TISSUE DELINEATION; DUAL ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0041326343     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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