Integrated Laplacian-based phase unwrapping and background phase removal for quantitative susceptibility mapping

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-227

  Li, Wei ^a   Avram, Alexandru V ^a,b   Wu, Bing ^a,c   Xiao, Xue ^a,d   Liu, Chunlei ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (China)

^d Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Background phase removal; Laplacian; Phase contrast; Phase unwrapping; Quantitative susceptibility mapping

Indexed keywords

LAPLACIANS; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; SUSCEPTIBILITY TENSORS;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

TISSUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; SIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

BACKGROUND PHASE REMOVAL; LAPLACIAN; PHASE CONTRAST; PHASE UNWRAPPING; QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84892847652     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3056     Document Type: Article

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