A flow quantification method using fluid dynamics regularization and MR tagging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1437-1445

  Jiraraksopakun, Yuttapong ^a,b   McDougall, Mary P ^c   Wright, Steven M ^a   Ji, Jim X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^c Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion estimation; MR flow quantification; MR tagging; MRI

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SOFTWARE; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DATA CONSISTENCY; FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; FLOW QUANTIFICATION; FLOW VECTORS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MR IMAGES; MR TAGGING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION;

FLUIDS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 77952578079     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2038229     Document Type: Article

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