On standardizing the MR image intensity scale

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1072-1081

  Nyú, László G ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image display; Image normalization; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

DEGREE OF AUTOMATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; MEAN-SQUARED DIFFERENCES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; SEVERAL PROTOCOLS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STANDARDIZATION; THEORY;

EID: 0344374438     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199912)42:6<1072::AID-MRM11>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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