Assessment of adipose tissue from whole body 3T MRI scans

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

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 7012-7015

  Song, Ting ^a   An, Jing ^b   Chen, Qun ^b   Lee, Vivian ^b   Laine, Andrew ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING;

3D MRI SCANS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANATOMY; HISTOGRAM;

TISSUE;

EID: 33846932833     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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