Reliable two-dimensional phase unwrapping method using region growing and local linear estimation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1085-1090

  Zhou, Kun ^a,b   Zaitsev, Maxim ^b   Bao, Shanglian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

MRI; Phase unwrapping; Quality guided; Two dimensional

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; LOCAL LINEAR ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PHASE UNWRAPPING ALGORITHM; PHASE UNWRAPPING METHODS;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70349613200     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22074     Document Type: Article

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