Robust estimation of the noise variance from background MR data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sijbers, J ^a   Den Dekker, A J ^b   Poot, D ^a   Bos, R ^b   Verhoye, M ^a   Van Camp, N ^a   Van Der Linden, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Histogram; ML estimation; Noise variance; Rayleigh distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ML ESTIMATION; NOISE VARIANCE; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 33745141901     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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