A super-resolution framework for 3-D high-resolution and high-contrast imaging using 2-D multislice MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 633-644

  Shilling, Richard Z ^a   Robbie, Trevor Q ^b   Bailloeul, Timothée ^d   Mewes, Klaus ^b   Mersereau, Russell M ^a   Brummer, Marijn E ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICOH COMPANY LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Multislice magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Projection onto convex sets (POCS); Super resolution

Indexed keywords

BRAIN IMAGING; CLINICAL SCANNERS; EX-VIVO; FREQUENCY ENCODING; HIGH CONTRASTS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGING; HUMAN BRAINS; IMAGE-GUIDED; IN-VIVO; INPUT DATUM; INVERSION PROCESS; INVERSION RECOVERIES; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MRI SCANS; MULTISLICE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SETS (POCS); PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENTS; SIMULATED PHANTOMS; SUPER-RESOLUTION; SUPER-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION;

ATOMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIO RECEIVERS; RESTORATION; RING GAGES; SET THEORY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 65549129259     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2007348     Document Type: Article

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