The partial volume effect is a significant limitation in medical imaging that results in blurring when the boundary between two structures of interest falls in the middle of a voxel. A new anisotropic diffusion method allows one to create interpolated 3D images corrected for partial volume, without enhancement of noise. After a zero-order interpolation, we apply a modified version of the anisot...

During the last decade, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been used extensively to investigate microstructural properties of white matter fiber pathways. In many of these DTI-based studies, fiber tractography has been used to infer relationships between bundle-specific mean DTI metrics and measures-of-interest (e.g., when studying diffusion changes related to age, cognitive performance, etc.) ...

We present a mathematical frame to carry out segmentation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of ventricular region in computed tomography (CT) images in the presence of partial volume effect (PVE). First, the image histogram is fitted using the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). Analyzing the GMM, we find global threshold based on parameters of distributions for CSF, and for the combined white and grey ma...

The partial volume effect (PVE) arises in volumetric images when more than one tissue type occurs in a voxel. In such cases, the voxel intensity depends not only on the imaging sequence and tissue properties, but also on the proportions of each tissue type present in the voxel. We have demonstrated in previous work that ignoring this effect by establishing binary voxel-based segmentations intro...

the problem of steady magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid due to an exponentially permeable stretching sheet with heat source/sink in presence of thermal radiation is numerically investigated. the effect of transverse brownian motion and thermophoresis on heat transfer and nano particle volume fraction considered. the governing partial differential eq...

High non-specific uptake of [11C]Pittsburgh compound B ([11C]PiB) in white matter and signal spillover from white matter, due to partial volume effects, confound radioactivity measured in positron emission tomography (PET) with [11C]PiB. We aimed to reveal the partial volume effect in absolute values of kinetic parameters for [11C]PiB, in terms of spillover from white matter. Dynamic data acqui...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of heat treatment including solution treatment and aging on the microstructure of cast nickel-based in100 superalloy including size, volume fraction and morphology of primary γ' and different kinds of carbides. for this purpose, different solution heat treatment cycles and a constant aging cycle were implemented on cast ingot samples and t...