A hybrid strategy for correcting geometric distortion in echo-planar images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 590-593

  Gelman, Neil ^a,b   Silavi, Ally ^b   Anazodo, Udunna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Echo planar imaging; Field mapping; Geometric distortion correction; Reverse phase encode gradient acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899105435     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.02.011     Document Type: Article

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