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Novel Method for Background Phase Removal on MRI Proton Resonance Frequency Measurements

Numerical Analysis 2017-12-27 v1 Medical Physics

Abstract

MR images have a magnitude and a phase, but in almost all clinical applications only the magnitude images are used, because the phase images have a smooth but strong background signal that masks useful information. The phase contains information such as the temperature during thermal ablation, and the iron content of brain tissue. We describe a novel method to suppress the background that is based on higher order edge detection and sparse image representation.

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@article{arxiv.1712.08651,
  title  = {Novel Method for Background Phase Removal on MRI Proton Resonance Frequency Measurements},
  author = {Wolfgang Stefan and David Fuentes and Erol Yeniaras and Ken-Pin Hwang and John D. Hazle and R. Jason Stafford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08651},
  year   = {2017}
}