Is your system calibrated? MRI gradient system calibration for pre-clinical, high-resolution imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  O'Callaghan, James ^a   Wells, Jack ^a   Richardson, Simon ^a   Holmes, Holly ^a   Yu, Yichao ^a   Walker Samuel, Simon ^a   Siow, Bernard ^a   Lythgoe, Mark F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL CALIPER; ERROR; EX VIVO STUDY; GRADIENT SCALING ERROR; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; QUALITY CONTROL; DEVICES; IMAGING PHANTOM;

CALIBRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84900563588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096568     Document Type: Article

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