International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 297089, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/297089
Research Article
Random Volumetric MRI Trajectories via Genetic Algorithms
1Department of Medical Biophysics, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada
2Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
Received 23 September 2007; Revised 5 April 2008; Accepted 22 May 2008
Academic Editor: Erik Meijering
Copyright © 2008 Andrew Thomas Curtis and Christopher Kumar Anand. This is an open access article distributed under the
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