Information content and quality of MR thumb images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3775-3785

  Saeed, Thuraya M ^a,b   Summers, Ian R ^a   Vennart, William ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Pfizer Global Research ^*  (Kuwait)

^c PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

LESIONS; THUMB IMAGES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB INJURY; TIME;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THUMB;

EID: 0344035364     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/22/010     Document Type: Article

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