Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1420-1429 , December 2009

A post-processing method for correction and enhancement of chemical shift images

  • Yu-Che Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Jyh-Horng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, ROC
    • ,
  • Tsu-Tsuen Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, ROC
    • ,
  • Ta-Te Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 33665331; fax: +886 2 23929416.

Received 8 August 2008 ,Revised 8 February 2009 ,Accepted 10 May 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00122-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.035

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1420-1429 , December 2009

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