Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 185-194 , February 2010

Registering spherical navigators with spherical harmonic expansions to measure three-dimensional rotations in magnetic resonance imaging

  • Andreu F. Costa

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • ,
  • Yi-Fen Yen

      Affiliations

    • Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
    • ,
  • Maria Drangova

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7
    • Department of Medical Imaging, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, P.O. Box 5015, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8. Tel.: +1 519 663 5777x24064; fax: +1 519 931 5260.

Received 21 August 2008 ,Revised 20 January 2009 ,Accepted 18 July 2009.

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☆ Grant sponsors: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MGP-49536), The Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, The Whitaker Foundation (RG-00-0409). MD is a Career Investigator with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.

PII: S0730-725X(09)00183-0

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.07.010

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 185-194 , February 2010

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