Image reconstruction in SNR units: A general method for SNR measurement

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1439-1447

  Kellman, Peter ^a   McVeigh, Elliot R ^a  

^a National Institutes of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; Noise; Parallel MRI; Phased array; SENSE; SNR measurement

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIGITAL RECEIVERS; NOISE; NOISE EQUIVALENT BANDWIDTHS; PARALLEL IMAGING; PARALLEL MRI; SENSE; SUM OF SQUARES; WINDOW FUNCTIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ACCURACY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 27644527486     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20713     Document Type: Article

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