Multiscale segmentation of the skull in MR images for MRI-based attenuation correction of combined MR/PET

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1037-1045

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Fei, Baowei ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMBINED MR/PET; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; MULTISCALE BILATERAL FILTER; RADON TRANSFORM;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL;

EID: 84886296480     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001544     Document Type: Article

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