MR coil sensitivity inhomogeneity correction for plaque characterization in carotid arteries

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 2114-2121

  Salvado, Olivier ^a   Hillenbrand, Claudia ^b   Suri, Jasjit ^a   Wilson, David ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Bias field; Carotid; Classification; Fuzzy C means; Inhomogeneity; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERIES; COIL SENSITIVITIES; PLAQUE; SKELETAL MUSCLES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 5644228761     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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