Influence of multichannel combination, parallel imaging and other reconstruction techniques on MRI noise characteristics

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 754-762

  Dietrich, Olaf ^a,d   Raya, José G ^a,d   Reeder, Scott B ^a,b,d   Ingrisch, Michael ^a,d   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a,d   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background noise; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multichannel acquisition; Parallel imaging; Reconstruction filters; Statistical noise distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY MRI;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 45849103511     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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