Improvement of quantification of myocardial first-pass perfusion mapping: A temporal and spatial wavelet denoising method

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 439-445

  Goldstein, Thomas A ^a,b   Zhang, Haosen ^a   Misselwitz, Bernd ^c   Gropler, Robert G ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Denoising; MRI; Myocardial perfusion; Vasodilation; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAPPING; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DE-NOISING; LEFT CORONARY ARTERIES; MYOCARDIAL BLOOD FLOW; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; VASODILATION; WAVELET; WAVELET DENOISING METHOD;

SIGNAL DENOISING;

DIPYRIDAMOLE; GADOMER 17;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOG; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FIRST PASS EFFECT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VASODILATATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33746759422     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20950     Document Type: Article

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