Implementation and evaluation of a new workflow for registration and segmentation of pulmonary MRI data for regional lung perfusion assessment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1261-1275

  Bottger T ^a   Grunewald, K ^a   Schobinger M ^a   Fink, C ^a   Risse, F ^a   Kauczor, H U ^a   Meinzer, H P ^a   Wolf, Ivo ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY DISEASES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

LUNG PERFUSION ASSESSMENT; MUTUAL INFORMATION (MI) METRICS; REGIONS OF INTEREST (ROIS); WORKFLOW;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EVALUATION; LUNG PERFUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; LUNG CIRCULATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34247253303     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/5/004     Document Type: Article

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