Cramer-Rao Bound Expressions for Parametric Estimation of Overlapping Peaks: Influence of Prior Knowledge

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-320

  Cavassila, S ^a   Deval, S ^a   Huegen, C ^b   Van Ormondt, D ^b   Graveron Demilly, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bounds; Error estimation; MR spectroscopy; Prior knowledge; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002479878     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1999.2002     Document Type: Article

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