Compensation of RF field and receiver coil induced inhomogeneity effects in abdominal MR images by a priori knowledge on the human adipose tissue distribution

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 716-726

  Würslin, Christian ^a,b   Springer, Fabian ^a   Yang, Bin ^b   Schick, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

abdomen; bias field; intensity correction; visceral adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 80051939320     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22682     Document Type: Article

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