Homodyne Detection in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 154-163

  Noll, Douglas C ^a   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a   Macovski, Albert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL - SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

HOMODYNE DETECTION; LOW SNR IMAGES; SYNCHRONOUS DETECTION; WATER-LIPID SEPARATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0026168822     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.79473     Document Type: Article

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