Selective depiction of susceptibility transitions using Laplace-filtered phase maps

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 601-609

  Bakker, Chris J G ^a,b   de Leeuw, Hendrik ^b   Seevinck, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Field inhomogeneity; Image processing; Laplace derivative; Magnetic susceptibility; Phase mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LAPLACE FILTERED THREE DIMENSIONAL PHASE MAPPING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PHANTOM; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84860440747     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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