Automated skull and cavity segmentation from ultra short TE sequence images

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 120-128

  Habes, Mohamad ^a,b   Kops, Elena Rota ^b   Bahr, Jeanette ^a   Kühn, Jens Peter ^a   Hoffmann, Wolfgang ^a   Lipinski, Hans Gerd ^c   Herzog, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Julich Research Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS DORTMUND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; MRI; PET MR; Skull segmentation; Support vector machine; UTE

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KERNEL METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SKULL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ULTRA SHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84883177022     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: 18756506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1573405611309020007     Document Type: Article

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