Geometric distortion correction for echo planar images using nonrigid registration with spatially varying scale

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1388-1397

  Li, Yong ^a   Xu, Ning ^a   Fitzpatrick, J Michael ^a   Dawant, Benoit M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortion correction; Echo planar images; Nonrigid registration; Regularization; Spatially varying scale

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 55949095158     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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