CT substitute derived from MRI sequences with ultrashort echo time

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2708-2714

  Johansson, Adam ^a   Karlsson, Mikael ^a   Nyholm, Tufve ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

computed tomography substitute; dose calculation; Gaussian mixture; magnetic resonance imaging; ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; TISSUE;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DOSE CALCULATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; GEOMETRICAL INACCURACIES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS-VALIDATION (LOOCV); MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; PATIENT POSITIONING; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959534469     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3578928     Document Type: Article

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