An application system for automation of constant-time radio frequency electron paramagnetic resonance imaging

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-138

  Taube, Andrew G ^a   Subramanian, Sankaran ^a   Murugesan, Ramachandran ^a,c   Devasahayam, Nallathamby ^a   Mitchell, James B ^a   Krishna, Murali C ^a,b   Cook, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Constant time imaging; Electron paramagnetic resonance; Graphical user interface; Gyromagnetic ratio; Phase encoding; Single point imaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

PHASE ENCODED DATA;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FILTRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0042162005     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(02)00124-4     Document Type: Article

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