Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 7-13 , January 2010

Textures in magnetic resonance images of the ischemic rat brain treated with an anti-inflammatory agent

  • Gang Chen

      Affiliations

    • MR Research Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. MR Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, DK8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. Tel.: +45 89495264; fax: +45 89495264/89496004.
    • ,
  • Michal Strzelecki

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Electronics, Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
    • ,
  • Qi Pang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Shandong 250021, China
    • ,
  • Hyongsuk Kim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Electronics and Information Engineering, Chonbuk National University, 561-756 Jeonju, Korea
    • ,
  • Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen

      Affiliations

    • MR Research Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

Received 1 December 2008 ,Accepted 19 February 2009.

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☆ This work was supported by the Aarhus University Research Foundation and the Danish Helga and Peter Kornings Foundation. This research was partially supported by the MIC, Korea, under the IT Foreign Specialist Inviting Program supervised by the Institute of Information Technology Advancement (IITA).

PII: S0899-7071(09)00059-X

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.02.004

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 7-13 , January 2010

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