Including spatial information in nonlinear inversion MR elastography using soft prior regularization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1901-1909

  McGarry, Matthew ^a   Johnson, Curtis L ^b   Sutton, Bradley P ^b   Van Houten, Elijah Ew ^c   Georgiadis, John G ^b   Weaver, John B ^a,d   Paulsen, Keith D ^a,d  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE); Nonlinear inversion; Soft prior

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; NON LINEAR INVERSION; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SOFT PRIOR; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

BIOMECHANICS;

VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; PHANTOM; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885105641     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2268978     Document Type: Article

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