A method for unwrapping highly wrapped multi-echo phase images at very high field: UMPIRE

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-92

  Robinson, Simon ^a   Schödl, Horst ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

high field; multi echo; phase imaging; phase wraps; UMPIRE; unwrapping

Indexed keywords

HIGH FIELD; MULTI-ECHO; PHASE IMAGING; PHASE WRAPS; UMPIRE; UNWRAPPING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; UNWRAPPING MULTI ECHO PHASE IMAGES WITH IRREGULAR ECHO SPACINGS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHOLE BODY MRI; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTIFACT; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HEAD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE;

EID: 84902537140     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24897     Document Type: Article

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