Improved Harmonic Phase (HARP) method for motion tracking a tagged cardiac MR images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 4298-4301

  Khalifa, Ayman M ^a,b   Youssef, Abou Bakr M ^a   Osman, Nael F ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Motion tracking; MR tagging

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; IMPROVED HARMONIC PHASE (HARP); MOTION TRACKING; REGIONAL FUNCTIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33846895204     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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