Regularized field map estimation in MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1484-1494

  Funai, Amanda K ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a   Yeo, Desmond T B ^a   Noll, Douglas C ^a   Olafsson, Valur T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic field inhomogeneity; Penalized likelihood estimation; Phase unwrapping; Regularizaron; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; RESONANCE; STANDARDS;

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; IMAGE REGIONS; LEAST-SQUARES COST FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR); MAP ESTIMATION; MONOTONICALLY; OFF-RESONANCE; PENALIZED-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHASE UNWRAPPING; REGULARIZARON; SMOOTH FUNCTIONS; SPIN DENSITIES; SUSCEPTIBILITY;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52649102545     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.923956     Document Type: Article

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