Dependence of vessel area accuracy and precision as a function of MR imaging parameters and boundary detection algorithm

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1226-1234

  Jiang, Jing ^a,b,c   Haacke, E Mark ^a,b,d   Dong, Ming ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; High resolution MR angiography; Quantification of other osclerosis; Vessel cross section; Zero filled interpolation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CAROTID ARTERY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 34249903606     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20918     Document Type: Article

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