Measurement of signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise in the fBIRN multicenter imaging study

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 140-147

  Magnotta, Vincent A ^a   Friedman, Lee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Signal to noise (S N)

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC COILS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); FBIRN MULTICENTER IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING RESEARCH OF SCHIZOPHRENIA TESTBED BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH NETWORK (FBIRN);

SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FIELD STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33748910620     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-006-0264-x     Document Type: Article

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