Analysis of acoustic noise in MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 815-822

  Cho, Z H ^a,b   Park, S H ^b   Kim, J H ^b   Chung, S C ^b   Chung, S T ^b   Chung, J Y ^b   Moon, C W ^c   Yi, J H ^c   Sin, C H ^d   Wong, E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^d Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Acoustic noise due to gradient pulsing; Analysis of acoustic noise in MRI; Sound noise; Sound noise in magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; PHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030930285     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00090-8     Document Type: Article

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