Assessment of the limiting spatial resolution of an MRI scanner by direct analysis of the edge spread function

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1637-1642

  Delakis, Ioannis ^a   Xanthis, Christos ^a   Kitney, Richard Ian ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Edge spread function; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SCANNING;

DIRECT ANALYSIS; EDGE SPREAD FUNCTION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PHANTOM IMAGES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 65449155510     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3097633     Document Type: Article

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