Wavelet packet denoising of magnetic resonance images: Importance of Rician noise at low SNR

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 631-635

  Wood, John C ^a   Johnson, Kevin M ^b  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; Noise; Rician; SNR; Wavelet packets; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL DENOISING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DE-NOISING; NOISE; RICIAN; WAVELET PACKET; WAVELETS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0033062659     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199903)41:3<631::AID-MRM29>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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