Phase unwrapping of MR images using ΦUN - A fast and robust region growing algorithm

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-268

  Witoszynskyj, Stephan ^a,d   Rauscher, Alexander ^a,c   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a   Barth, Markus ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Field maps; MRI; Phase imaging; SWI

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INFORMATIONS; FIELD MAPS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; IN-VIVO; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; LOW SNR; MR-IMAGES; MRI; PHASE IMAGING; PHASE TOPOGRAPHIES; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PHASE UNWRAPPING ALGORITHMS; QUALITY MAPS; REGION GROWING ALGORITHMS; REGION GROWING METHODS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES; SWI;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

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

EID: 62549137400     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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