Method for automatic localization of MR-visible markers using morphological image processing and conventional pulse sequences: Feasibility for image-guided procedures

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1087-1096

  Busse, Harald ^a   Trampel, Robert ^a   Gründer, Wilfried ^b   Moche, Michael ^a   Kahn, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interventional MRI; Marker detection; MR visible markers; MRI guidance; Percutaneous biopsies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOPSY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 35148833921     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21129     Document Type: Article

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