The use of super-resolution techniques to reduce slice thickness in functional MRI

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 131-138

  Peeters, Ronald R ^a   Kornprobst, Pierre ^b   Nikolova, Mila ^c   Sunaert, Stefan ^a   Vieville, Thierry ^b   Malandain, Grégoire ^b   Deriche, Rachid ^b   Faugeras, Olivier ^b   Ng, Michael ^d   Van Hecke, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

FMRI; SNR; Super Resolution algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DATASETS; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPER-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 6344233295     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ima.20016     Document Type: Article

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