An open-source software tool for the generation of relaxation time maps in magnetic resonance imaging

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Messroghli, Daniel R ^a,b   Rudolph, Andre ^a   Abdel Aty, Hassan ^a   Wassmuth, Ralf ^a   Kühne, Titus ^b   Dietz, Rainer ^a   Schulz Menger, Jeanette ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955487476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-10-16     Document Type: Article

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