Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 784-792 , December 2010

Non-local MRI upsampling

  • José V. Manjón

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34 96 387 70 00x75275; fax: +34 96 387 90 09.
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  • Pierrick Coupé

      Affiliations

    • McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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  • Antonio Buades

      Affiliations

    • Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
    • Dpt. Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat Illes Balears, Ctra Valldemossa km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    • ,
  • Vladimir Fonov

      Affiliations

    • McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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  • D. Louis Collins

      Affiliations

    • McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • ,
  • Montserrat Robles

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Received 16 September 2009 ,Revised 26 March 2010 ,Accepted 31 May 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.media.2010.05.010

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 784-792 , December 2010

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