Automated definition of mid-sagittal planes for MRI brain scans

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Hong ^a   Xu, Qing ^b   Zhang, Li ^c   Kiraly, Atilla P ^c   Novak, Carol L ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic planning; Brain MRI scans; Linear regression using robust weights; Mid sagittal plane

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; GRADIENT METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING;

AUTOMATIC PLANNING; BRAIN MRI SCANS; MID-SAGITTAL PLANE; WORKFLOW;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 36248964141     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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