Denoising of complex MRI data by wavelet-domain filtering: Application to high-b-value diffusion-weighted imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1114-1120

  Wirestam, Ronnie ^a   Bibic, Adnan ^a   Lätt, Jimmy ^a   Brockstedt, Sara ^a   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Filtering; Magnetic resonance imaging; Noise; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; FILTRATION; FLOORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL STANDARD DEVIATIONS; WAVELET;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXPERIMENT; FILTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 33750621209     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21036     Document Type: Article

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