Quantitative evaluation of metal artifact reduction techniques in MRI

Several techniques for metal artifact reduction in MRI were studied in order to determine their effectiveness. The noise and blur introduced by the techniques were also investigated. To this end, non-metallic replicas of two metal implants (stainless steel and titanium/chromium-cobalt femoral prosth...

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Main Author: Kolind, Shannon Heather
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14574