Direct 4D reconstruction of parametric images incorporating anato-functional joint entropy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4261-4272

  Tang, Jing ^a,b   Kuwabara, Hiroto ^a   Wong, Dean F ^a   Rahmim, Arman ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; ENTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

BRAIN; ENTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78049448948     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/15/005     Document Type: Article

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