Nonlinear phase correction with an extended statistical algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 791-798

  Chang, Zheng ^a   Xiang, Qing San ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

N pixel shift rotational differential field (RDF); Phase correction and unwrapping; Signal enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR CORRECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; THEOREM PROVING;

MINIMUM-NORM METHODS; N-PIXEL-SHIFT ROTATIONAL DIFFERENTIAL FIELDS (RDF); PHASE CORRECTION AND UNWRAPPING; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 20744453080     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.848375     Document Type: Article

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