Technical Note: Characterization and correction of gradient nonlinearity induced distortion on a 1.0 T open bore MR-SIM

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5955-5960

  Price, Ryan G ^a,b   Kadbi, Mo ^c   Kim, Joshua ^a   Balter, James ^d   Chetty, Indrin J ^a,b   Glide Hurst, Carri K ^a,b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

correction; distortion; gradient non linearity; MRI; treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTIFACTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85012822259     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4930245     Document Type: Article

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