Boundary artifact in inversion-recovery images
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
|February 1, 1986
Abstract:
Modulus reconstruction of inversion-recovery images causes a pixel value to be assigned the absolute magnitude of the signal amplitude. Consequently, contrast between tissues is reduced if they have amplitudes of opposite sign. When contrast is reduced between adjacent tissues, dark line artifacts are created at the tissue boundaries. The artifacts may enable tissues to be spatially distinguished even if there is no contrast between them. However, the artifacts may lead to misinterpretation of the image since they may be difficult to distinguish from real anatomical structures.
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