Fully automatic processing of in vivo proton spectra and spectroscopic images

Author

Wu, Zhe ; Maudsley, Andrew A. ; Weiner, Michael W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radiol. & Med., California Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

31 Oct-6 Nov 1993

Firstpage

1520

Abstract

A fully automated spectral analysis method is proposed. This is used in combination with several additional processing steps to provide totally automated formation of ¹H metabolite images from the magnetic resonance (MR) spectral data of the human brain. The MR images obtained by the new method show great improvement compared with the images obtained by the traditional method. The new method could provide a very promising solution to massive routine processing of magnetic resonance spectral imaging data for clinical and biomedical studies

Keywords

biomedical NMR; brain; medical image processing; medical signal processing; proton spectra; spectral analysis; ¹H metabolite images; H; biomedical studies; clinical studies; fully automatic processing; human brain; in vivo proton spectra; magnetic resonance spectral data; massive routine processing; medical diagnostic imaging; spectroscopic images; totally automated image formation; Biomedical imaging; Flowcharts; Humans; In vivo; Instruments; Protons; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Spectral analysis; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1993., 1993 IEEE Conference Record.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1487-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373544

Filename

373544