Quantification and improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio in a magnetic resonance image acquisition procedure

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1157-1163

  Sijbers, J ^a   Scheunders, P ^a   Bonnet, N ^b   Van Dyck, D ^a   Raman, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Correlation function; Multiple magnetic resonance image acquisitions; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0030425801     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(96)00219-6     Document Type: Article

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