A method for automatic identification of water and fat images from a symmetrically sampled dual-echo Dixon technique

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 427-433

  Ahmad, Moiz ^a   Liu, Yinan ^a   Slavens, Zachary W ^b   Low, Russell ^c   Merkle, Elmar ^d   Hwang, Ken Pin ^b   Vu, Anthony ^b   Ma, Jingfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c SHARP HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dixon imaging; Fat spectra; Symmetric sampling; Water and fat identification

Indexed keywords

FAT; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ECHO DIXON TECHNIQUE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BODY WATER; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649335775     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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