Adaptive averaging for improved SNR in real-time coronary artery MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1034-1045

  Sussman, Marshall S ^a,b   Robert, Normand ^a   Wright, Graham A ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive averaging; Real time MRI; Reduced field of view; SNR; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE AVERAGING TECHNIQUES; COMPOSITE CORONARY ARTERY IMAGES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS (CC); REAL-TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); REDUCED FIELD-OF-VIEW; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION COMPENSATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4043050049     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.828677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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