Estimation of the noise in magnitude MR images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-90

  Sijbers, J ^a   Den Dekker, A J ^a   Van Audekerke, J ^a   Verhoye, M ^a   Van Dyck, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Double acquisition; Noise estimation; Rice distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 0031983116     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00199-9     Document Type: Article

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