On the accuracy of unwarping techniques for the correction of susceptibility-induced geometric distortion in magnetic resonance Echo-planar images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 6997-7000

  Gholipour, Ali ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^b   Scherrer, Benoit ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ACTIVITY; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISTORTION CORRECTION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; GROUND TRUTH; HYBRID APPROACH; HYBRID FIELDS; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED TECHNIQUES; IN-VIVO; INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS; K-SPACE; PHASE ENCODING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REPETITION TIME;

BRAIN; DEFORMATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TENSORS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84055224060     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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