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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2010.14.4.948

Nonuniformity Correction Scheme Based on 3-dimensional Visualization of MRI Images  

Kim, Hyoung-Jin (연세대 전산학과, (주)에이아이랩)
Seo, Kwang-Deok (연세대 컴퓨터정보통신공학부)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.14, no.4, 2010 , pp. 948-958 More about this Journal
Abstract
Human body signals collected by the MRI system are very weak, such that they may be easily affected by either external noise or system instability while being imaged. Therefore, this paper analyzes the nonuniformity caused by a design of the RF receiving coil in a low-magnetic-field MRI system, and proposes an efficient method to improve the image uniformity. In this paper, a method for acquiring 3D bias volume data by using phantom data among various methods for correcting such nonuniformity in MRI image is proposed, such that it is possible to correct various-sized images. It is shown by simulations that images obtained by various imaging methods can be effectively corrected using single bias data.
Keywords
Nonuniformity correction of MRI image; Medical image processing; Bias correction; 3D visualization;
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