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PARTIAL VOLUME ARTIFACT [1 record]

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Record 1 2007-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tomography
CONT

The partial volume effect (when a [voxel] represents more than one kind of tissue type) blurs the intensity distinction between tissue classes at the border of the two tissues.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imagerie par résonance magnétique
  • Tomographie
DEF

[...] effet lié à l'existence éventuelle, dans un même voxel, de structures de densités différentes, simulant une densité anormale de l'organe étudié.

OBS

artéfact : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Spanish

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