Robust super-resolution volume reconstruction from slice acquisitions: Application to fetal brain MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1739-1758

  Gholipour, Ali ^a   Estroff, Judy A ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); M estimation; Maximum likelihood; Robust super resolution; Volume reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION MODELS; BRAIN MRI; DIGITAL BRAIN; FAST SPIN ECHOS; FETAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; M-ESTIMATION; MOTION ARTIFACT; MOVING SUBJECT; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OUT-OF-PLANE; ROBUST ERROR NORM; SCAN SLICES; SINGLE SHOTS; SUPER RESOLUTION; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

BRAIN; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REPAIR; RESONANCE; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957579868     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2051680     Document Type: Article

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