Phantoms for texture analysis of MR images. Long-term and multi-center study

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 616-622

  Jirák, Daniel ^a   Dezortová, Monika ^a   Hájek, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Long term stability; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multi center study; Phantom design; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEXTURES;

HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; LONG TERM STABILITY; MISCLASSIFICATION RATES; MULTI-CENTER STUDY; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

PHANTOMS;

AGAR; POLYSTYRENE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642337859     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1646231     Document Type: Article

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