Signal-to-noise measurements in magnitude images from NMR phased arrays

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 852-857

  Constantinides, Chris D ^a   Atalar, Ergin ^a   McVeigh, Elliot R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise correlations; Phased array coils; Signal to noise

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

MEAN SQUARE VALUES; MEASURED SIGNALS; NOISE CORRELATION; NOISE VARIANCE; PHASED ARRAY COILS; PIXEL INTENSITIES; REGION OF INTEREST; SIGNAL TO NOISE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0030726766     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380524     Document Type: Article

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