A noise reduction method based on a statistical test of high dimensional pixel vectors for dynamic and volumetric images

Rivista di Neuroradiologia

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-33

  Nambu, Kyojiro ^a,b   Iseki, H ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Image processing; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL DYNAMIC PHANTOM; PHANTOM; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 17144416083     PISSN: 11209976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/197140090501800103     Document Type: Article

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