Understanding intensity non-uniformity in MRI

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1496, Issue , 1998, Pages 614-622

  Sled, John G ^a   Pike, G Bruce ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; ELLIPTIC GEOMETRY; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; LINEARLY POLARIZED; NON-UNIFORMITIES; PROTON DENSITY; RADIO-FREQUENCY COIL; RF COIL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84947725057     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0056247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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