Limits on the Accuracy of 3-D Thickness Measurement in Magnetic Resonance Images - Effects of Voxel Anisotropy

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1076-1088

  Sato, Yoshinobu ^a   Tanaka, Hisashi ^a   Nishii, Takashi ^a   Nakanishi, Katsuyuki ^a   Sugano, Nobuhiko ^a   Kubota, Tetsuya ^b   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^a   Ochi, Takahiro ^a   Tamura, Shinichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TSUYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Brain cortex; Point spread function; Quantitative image analysis; Spatial resolution; Thickness determination; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GAUSSIAN BLURRING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0141745582     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.816955     Document Type: Article

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