Publication detail

Processing of MR Images in Temporomandibular Joint Examination

BARTUŠEK, K. SMÉKAL, Z. LIBERDA, O. ŠPRLÁKOVÁ, A.

Original Title

Processing of MR Images in Temporomandibular Joint Examination

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper deals with the post-processing treatment of MR images in the examina- tion of temporomandibular joints. An increase in contrast corresponding to the relaxation time of cores T2 in the MR image and enhancement of arthritic areas of diseased temporomandibular joint were obtained by wavelet transform digital filtering and by processing two MR images measured at difeerent echo times. The enhanced area indicates arthritic changes in the temporomandibular joint, which will be compared with the results of arthroscope examination. Experimental verifica- tion of the described method of data processing shows the application of wavelet digital filtering to be of advantage. Images weighted by relaxation time T2 enhance the loosely bonded molecules of water and enable making the area with arthritic changes in temporomandibular visible. The method can also be applied in other MR examinations.

Keywords

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI, Temporomandibular Joint

Authors

BARTUŠEK, K.; SMÉKAL, Z.; LIBERDA, O.; ŠPRLÁKOVÁ, A.

RIV year

2008

Released

2. 7. 2008

Publisher

Electromagnetic Academy

Location

Cambridge USA

ISBN

978-1-934142-06-6

Book

PIERS 2008 Cambridge Proceedings

Pages from

769

Pages to

772

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT26769,
  author="Karel {Bartušek} and Zdeněk {Smékal} and Ondřej {Liberda} and Andrea {Šprláková}",
  title="Processing of MR Images in Temporomandibular Joint Examination",
  booktitle="PIERS 2008 Cambridge Proceedings",
  year="2008",
  pages="769--772",
  publisher="Electromagnetic Academy",
  address="Cambridge USA",
  isbn="978-1-934142-06-6"
}