01221nas a2200133   4500008004100000020001400041245005600055210005600111260001200167300001400179490000900193520084000202856004501042       1999                        eng d  a0302-974300aNew variants of a method of MRI scale normalization0 aNew variants of a method of MRI scale normalization  c1999///  a490 - 4950 v16133 aOne of the major drawbacks of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)has been the lack of a standard and quantifiable interpretation 
of image intensities. This causes many difficulties in image 
display and analysis. We have devised a two-step method wherein 
all images can be transformed in such a way that for the same 
protocol and body region, in the transformed images similar 
intensities will have similar tissue meaning. Normalized images 
can be displayed with fixed windows without the need of per case 
adjustment. More importantly, extraction of quantitative 
information about healthy organs or about abnormities, such as 
tumors, can considerably be simplified. This paper introduces 
and compares new variants of this normalization method that can 
help to overcome some of the problems with the original method.
  uhttps://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/en/node/1090