A two-step scheme for distortion rectification of magnetic resonance images

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3917-3926

  Baldwin, Lesley N ^a   Wachowicz, Keith ^a   Fallone, B Gino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical shift; Distortion; Gradient nonlinearity; MRI; Phantom; Phase difference mapping; Reverse gradient technique; Susceptibility; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; DISTORTION (WAVES); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAPPING; PHANTOMS;

DISTORTION CORRECTION; DISTORTION RECTIFICATIONS; GRADIENT NONLINEARITY; PHASE DIFFERENCE MAPPINGS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; REVERSE GRADIENT TECHNIQUE; TIME-EFFICIENT METHODS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MINERAL OIL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 69549121834     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3180107     Document Type: Article

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