Reference-free PRFS MR-thermometry using near-harmonic 2-D reconstruction of the background phase

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 287-301

  Salomir, Rares ^a   Viallon, Magalie ^b   Kickhefel, Antje ^c   Roland, Joerg ^b   Morel, Denis R ^b   Petrusca, Lorena ^a   Auboiroux, Vincent ^a   Goget, Thomas ^a   Terraz, Sylvain ^b   Becker, Christoph D ^b   Gross, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focused ultrasound; harmonic functions; magnetic resonance (MR) thermometry; magnetic susceptibility; tissue motion

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; GRADIENT ECHO; HIGH ORDER POLYNOMIAL; MAGNETIC PERTURBATION; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; MR THERMOMETRY; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; PHASE DATA; PHASE MAPS; POLYNOMIAL FIT; PROTON RESONANCE FREQUENCY; REGION OF INTEREST; THERMAL ABLATION; TISSUE MOTION;

HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; THERMOMETERS; TISSUE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMOGRAPHY; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; TURKEYS;

EID: 84856744083     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2168421     Document Type: Article

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