Maximum-likelihood estimation of rician distribution parameters

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-361

  Sijbers, Jan ^a   Den Dekker, Arnold J ^a   Scheunders, Paul ^a   Van Dyck, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance (MR) images; Maximum likelihood (ML); Parameter estimation; Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RICIAN DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032081257     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.712125     Document Type: Article

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