Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 7-16 , January 2009

Image background inhomogeneity correction in MRI via intensity standardization

  • Ying Zhuge

      Affiliations

    • Medical Image Processing Group, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Fourth Floor, Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, United States
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  • Jayaram K. Udupa

      Affiliations

    • Medical Image Processing Group, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Fourth Floor, Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 215 662 6780; fax: +1 215 898 9145.
    • ,
  • Jiamin Liu

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warrent Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
    • ,
  • Punam K. Saha

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States

Received 9 May 2007 ,Revised 26 September 2008

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PII: S0895-6111(08)00097-9

doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.09.004

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 7-16 , January 2009

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