Artifact reduction in HARP strain maps using anisotropic smoothing

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6143 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Abd Elmoniem, Khaled Z ^a   Parthasarathy, Vijay ^a   Prince, Jerry L ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Cardiac MRI; De blurring; HARP; Restoration; Smoothing; Strain maps

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; STRAIN;

ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC MRI; DE-BLURRING; HARP; SMOOTHING; STRAIN MAPS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33745359278     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.656619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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