Background field removal by solving the Laplacian boundary value problem

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 312-319

  Zhou, Dong ^a   Liu, Tian ^b   Spincemaille, Pascal ^a   Wang, Yi ^a,c,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Medimagemetric LLC   (United States)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Background field removal; Boundary value problem of partial differential equation (PDE); Full multigrid (FMG) algorithm; Laplace's equation; Phase imaging; Poisson's equation; Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM); Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI)

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FIELD REMOVAL; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION (PDE); FULL MULTIGRID (FMG) ALGORITHM; LAPLACE'S EQUATION; PHASE IMAGING; POISSON'S EQUATION; QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING (QSM); SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING (SWI);

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84893815553     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3064     Document Type: Article

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