Automated generation of curved planar reformations from MR images of the spine

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Vrtovec, Tomaž ^a   Ourselin, Sébastien ^b   Gomes, Lavier ^c   Likar, Boštjan ^a   Pernuš, Franjo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; ROBUST CONTROL; SCANNING;

ANATOMICAL PROPERTIES; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION; SPINAL COLUMN; VERTEBRAL BODIES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRA BODY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE;

EID: 34248174936     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/10/015     Document Type: Article

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