Modeling shear modulus distribution in magnetic resonance elastography with piecewise constant level sets

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 390-401

  Li, Bing Nan ^a,b   Chui, Chee Kong ^b   Ong, Sim Heng ^b   Numano, Tomokazu ^c   Washio, Toshikatsu ^d   Homma, Kazuhiro ^d   Chang, Stephen ^e   Venkatesh, Sudhakar ^e   Kobayashi, Etsuko ^f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elasticity imaging; Level set methods; Magnetic resonance elastography; Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 84862780389     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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