Wavelet-based Rician noise removal for magnetic resonance imaging

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1408-1419

  Nowak, Robert D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE GAUSSIAN NOISE; RICIAN NOISE; WAVELET DOMAIN FILTERING METHODS;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0033322132     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.791966     Document Type: Article

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