Sequential anisotropic Wiener filtering applied to 3D MRI data

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 278-292

  Martin Fernandez, Marcos ^a,b   Alberola Lopez, Carlos ^b   Ruiz Alzola, Juan ^c   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Tecnologia de Canarias   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anisotropic filter; MMSE criterion; MSE performance; Orientation filter; Parameter estimation; Sequential filter; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FILTER; ARTICLE; FILTER; FILTRATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION FILTER; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL FILTER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WIENER FILTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 33846557373     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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