Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1388-1397 , December 2008

Geometric distortion correction for echo planar images using nonrigid registration with spatially varying scale

Received 16 November 2007 ,Revised 27 March 2008 ,Accepted 29 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.03.004

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1388-1397 , December 2008

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